Physical Map of the World, April 2006
AUSTRALIA Bermuda Sicily / AZORES Independent state Dependency or area of special sovereignty Island / island group Capital
Scale 1:35,000,000 Robinson Projection standard parallels 38°N and 38°S
150 120 90 60 30 0 30 60 90 120 150 180
ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ellesmere Island
ARCTIC OCEAN
Longyearbyen
FRANZ JOSEF LAND
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
ARCTIC OCEAN
Beaufort Sea
Barrow
Banks Island Victoria Island
ISLANDS
Baffin Bay
Baffin Island
Greenland Sea
Svalbard
(NORWAY)
NOVAYA ZEMLYA
Kara Sea
Laptev Sea
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Greenland
(DENMARK)
Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)
Barents Sea Norwegian Sea
Arctic Circle (66°33') NORWAY
Faroe Islands
White Sea
East Siberian Sea
Wrangel Island
Chukchi Sea
U. S.
Mt. McKinley (highest point in North America, 6194 m)
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Davis Strait
Nuuk (Godthåb)
TAINS
Great Bear Lake
Denmark Strait
ICELAND Reykjavík Tórshavn
(DEN.)
SWEDEN
Gulf of Bothnia
S
I
B
E
R
I
A
Yakutsk 60
FINLAND
Helsinki
Tallinn EST.
St. Petersburg Nizhniy Novgorod
Anchorage Whitehorse
60
Gulf of Alaska
Hudson Bay
Labrador Sea
Oslo Stockholm
Rockall
(U.K.)
MO
UN
Great Slave Lake
R U S S I A
Yekaterinburg Omsk
URA
L
CANADA
Edmonton
UNITED
Belfast
North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen
Amsterdam
NETH. Hamburg
RUSSIA
Baltic LAT. Sea Riga LITH.
Bering Sea
Novosibirsk
ROCK
Moscow Minsk
Vilnius
Lake Baikal
Irkutsk
TIA ALEU
LAN N IS
DS
Lake Winnipeg
Dublin IRELAND Island of Newfoundland
Celtic Sea
Isle of Man (U.K.)
KINGDOM
London
Brussels Paris
BELGIUM LUX.
Vancouver Seattle
Guernsey (U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)
Berlin GERMANY Prague Luxembourg CZECH REP.
LIECH.
POLAND Warsaw
BELARUS Kiev
Samara
Sea of Okhotsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Sakhalin
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
(U.S.)
Y
MOUNTAINS
Minneapolis
Astana
A
Lake Superior Lake Michigan
Detroit Chicago
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Huron Ottawa
Toronto
Montréal
St. Pierre and Miquelon
(FRANCE)
Bay of Biscay
Bratislava MOLDOVA SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chi sinau FRANCE S Ljubljana HUNGARY Bern LP ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA A CROATIA Belgrade Zagreb Milan SAN Bucharest Vienna
MONACO MARINO
BOS. & HER.
SLOVAKIA
UKRAINE
Kharkiv
LT
A
KAZAKHSTAN
Lake Balkhash
Sea of Azov
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)
Y
M
T
S
Ulaanbaatar
.
Khabarovsk KURIL ISLANDS
Aral Sea
S.
MONGOLIA
Ürümqi
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
San Francisco
Death Valley (lowest point in North America, -86 m)
Lake Ontario
UNITED
Denver
Lake Erie
A HI AC
N
Boston S IN TA N OU New York M Philadelphia
Marseille
ANDORRA
Corsica
(FR.)
ITALY Sarajevo
VATICAN CITY
SER.& MONT.
Sofia
Black Sea
Istanbul
BULGARIA
GEORGIA
CAU C AS US
MT
Caspian Sea
STATES
Dallas
Washington, D.C.
L PA AP
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
I C
T
I
PORTUGAL Lisbon
AZORES (PORT.)
Madrid
Barcelona
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
Rome
ALB.
Skopje
MACEDONIA
Tbilisi Yerevan
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)
UZBEKISTAN
Tirana
SPAIN
Ankara
· Izmir
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
TAKLA MAKAN
G
I OB
DE
SE
RT
Sapporo Shenyang
occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sardinia
(IT.)
GREECE
Sicily
TURKEY
¯
Baku
TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat
Mashhad
Tashkent Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
1972 Line of Control
Beijing
Tianjin
Sea of
NORTH KOREA Japan Pyongyang Seoul SOUTH KOREA
Pusan
NORTH
JAPAN
Tokyo
DESERT
Indian claim
Athens Nicosia
Crete
(GR.)
Gibraltar(U.K.) Ceuta (SP.)
Algiers
Los Angeles Tijuana
30
Atlanta Bermuda
(U.K.)
D
G
E
Melilla MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
(SP.)
Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA Tripoli
(IT.)
Aleppo
LEB.
Casablanca
Rabat
Mediterranean Sea
CYPRUS
SYRIA
Damascus Amman JORDAN
Tehran
Beirut
IRAQ
Kabul
AFGHANISTAN
Baghdad
¯ Islamabad
Lahore
Line of Actual Control
CHINA
H
Yellow Sea
Osaka
Yokohama
PACIFIC OCEAN
30
R
Alexandria
ISRAEL
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
ALGERIA
Laayoune (El Aaiún)
Kuwait
KUWAIT
Persian Gulf
N
AP
(J
M I D AT L A
Monterrey
Gulf of Mexico
Havana
Miami
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Honolulu
THE BAHAMAS Nassau
Milwaukee Deep Turks and Caicos Islands (deepest point of the (U.K.) Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m) British Virgin Islands (U.K.) Port-au- DOMINICAN Anguilla (U.K.) REPUBLIC
LIBYA
PAKISTAN
Abu Dhabi
OMAN
New Delhi
NEPAL
Kanpur
AS
BHUTAN
Chongqing
East China Sea
Okinawa
-
Houston
Cairo
AY
IS L A N D S AN )
MOROCCO
Jerusalem
Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
IRAN
IM
Mt. Everest
NA
AL
(highest point in Asia and the world, 8850 m)
Chengdu
Wuhan
Shanghai
M PO
(JA
H - S
N) PA
Western Sahara
Taipei
Y
U
EGYPT
Red Sea
SAUDI
BAHRAIN
Kathmandu
Thimphu
Manama Doha Riyadh
QATAR
-
Midway Islands
(U.S.)
OT
O
MEXICO
CUBA
Guadalajara
Johnston Atoll
(U.S.)
BELIZE Belmopan
Kingston
Navassa Island
(U.S.)
HAITI
Santo Puerto Domingo Rico
(U.S.) Montserrat
(U.K.)
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.) DOMINICA
GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua
Clipperton Island
(FRANCE)
(NETH.)
San José COSTA RICA Panama PANAMA
Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA) Isla de Malpelo
Maracaibo
Port-of-Spain
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
N'Djamena
Lac 'Assal (lowest point in Africa, -155 m)
DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
Djibouti
(YEMEN)
Socotra
Chennai (Madras)
LAKSHADWEEP
(INDIA)
CAMBODIA
Guam
Caracas
NIGERIA
Abuja
Addis Ababa
VA
S
EY LL
Andaman Sea Laccadive Sea
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
Ho Chi Minh City
SPRATLY ISLANDS
(U.S.) Challenger Deep (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
M
Aruba
Kingman Reef (U.S.) Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
Medellín
VENEZUELA
Cali
A
Bogotá
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne
Banjul BURKINA Bamako FASO THE GAMBIA Ouagadougou Bissau GUINEA GUINEA-BISSAU BENIN Conakry CÔTE TOGO Freetown D'IVOIRE GHANA SIERRA Yamoussoukro LEONE Lagos Lomé Accra Monrovia PortoAbidjan LIBERIA Novo
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
SUDAN
Bangalore
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
PHILIPPINES
I PHIL
AR
Caribbean Sea
Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA
Dakar Praia
SENEGAL
Asmara
Sanaa
Niamey
Arabian Sea
Bengal
Bangkok
VIETNAM
Manila
South China Sea
Hagåtña
IAN
CAPE VERDE
Tombouctou
NIGER
CHAD
Khartoum
ERITREA
YEMEN
Bay of
Rangoon
THAILAND
PARACEL ISLANDS
(U.S.)
Saipan
A TRE
(U.S.)
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Puebla
JAMAICA
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
Nouakchott
MALI
Mumbai (Bombay)
- Hyderabad
Sea
Northern Mariana Islands
NC
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
S
MAURITANIA
A
H
A
R
A
Jiddah
ARABIA
L B' A RU KH I AL
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
¯ Karachi
BANGLADESH
R
Muscat
Y
U
K
Marcus Island
(JAPAN)
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
- Ahmadabad
Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta)
Mandalay
Taiwan
OMAN
BURMA
Hanoi
Mexico
Cayman Is.
(U.K.)
Prince
INDIA
Pyinmana
Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.
S.A.R.
H
LAOS
Vientiane Tonkin
Gulf of
Philippine
Wake Island
(U.S.)
Hainan Dao
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
Koror Palikir
MARSHALL ISLANDS
Majuro
E PPIN
RIF T
N
CAMEROON Yaoundé
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Bangui
UGANDA Kampala
GRE AT
ETHIOPIA SOMALIA
E
Colombo SRI LANKA
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
CH TREN
Bandar Seri Begawan
Medan
D
PALAU
Malabo
Male
0 Jarvis Island
(U.S.)
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)
COLOMBIA
Equator
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(ECUADOR)
MALDIVES
Mogadishu Nairobi
Mt. Kilimanjaro (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
PENEDOS DE SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
(BRAZIL)
Gulf of Guinea
Quito ECUADOR
Guayaquil Manaus Fortaleza Belém ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
(BRAZIL)
Equator
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
São Tome
Annobon
(EQUA. GUI.)
Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO Brazzaville
ANGOLA
(Cabinda)
KENYA
Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE
BRUNEI
S
I
A
Celebes Sea
Tarawa
Equator
Yaren NAURU District
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
RWANDA Kigali
Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0
Lake Victoria Bujumbura
BURUNDI Dodoma
K I R I B A T I
Kinshasa
OF THE CONGO
Lake Tanganyika
Victoria Dar es Salaam
British Indian Ocean Territory
(U.K.)
I
JA
N
Jakarta
Bandung
D
Java Sea
Surabaya
O
N
E
Dili
S
Banda Sea
I
Arafura Sea
A
Bismarck Sea
K I R I B A T I
TANZANIA
Lake Nyasa
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Port Moresby
t Grea
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
Ascension
E
PERU
A
N
Lima
TR
Moroni
Mayotte
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
Glorioso Islands
(FRANCE)
RIDG
BRAZIL
E
Salvador
(St. Helena)
Luanda
Lubumbashi
SEYCHELLES
MID - INDIAN
Diego Garcia
T
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Honiara
PE
RU
V
A
R
E
Funafuti
L HI - C
Christmas Island
(AUSTL.)
NC
H
(deepest point of the Indian Ocean, -7258 m)
EAST TIMOR
TUVALU
Tokelau (N.Z.)
ANGOLA
S
Lago Titicaca La Paz
COMOROS
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
(AUSTL.)
Cook Islands
(N.Z.)
TYE
SOCIETY ISLANDS
(Fr. Poly.)
Papeete
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)
C
H
Brasília
AST
SOUTH ATLANTIC
Martin Vaz Trindade
(BRAZIL) (BRAZIL)
ZAMBIA
St. Helena
(St. Helena) Namibe
Lilongwe
MALAWI
Tromelin Island
Juan de Nova Island (FR.) (FRANCE)
INDIAN OCEAN
EA
N
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
(AUSTL.)
Timor Sea
Gulf of Carpentaria
E
Lusaka Harare
Coral Sea
VANUATU
Re ef
Wallis and Futuna
SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago
American Samoa Niue (N.Z.)
(U.S.)
D
N
E
Barrier
Tropic of Capricorn
ÎLES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)
(23°27')
Isla San Felíx (CHILE)
PARAGUAY
Asunción
Rio de Janeiro São Paulo
Windhoek
Walvis Bay
DESER
KALAHARI DESERT
(FRANCE)
Reunion
(FRANCE)
TONGA
Europa Island
(FRANCE)
Tropic of Capricorn (23°27')
Alice Springs
Noumea
Gaborone Pretoria
Johannesburg
Adamstown
Pitcairn Islands (U.K.) Easter Island (CHILE)
Maputo
30
Pôrto Alegre
T
R
(AUSTL.)
E
(U.K.)
LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru
GREAT VICTORIA DESERT
N
Brisbane
Norfolk Island
KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)
E
C
C
H
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)
G
Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
St. Helena
Mbabane SWAZILAND
Durban
E
A U S T R A L I A
Lake Eyre (lowest point in Australia, -15 m)
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
30
CHILE
ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE)
Córdoba
Cerro Aconcagua (highest point in South America, 6962 m)
AFRICA
Cape Town
Santiago
Buenos Aires Montevideo
Canberra
Île Amsterdam
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Sydney Auckland
ARGENTINA
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena) Gough Island
(St. Helena)
Île Saint-Paul
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Great Australian Bight
Mount Kosciuszko (highest point in Australia, 2229m)
Melbourne
Tasman Sea
Tasmania
NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
Christchurch CHATHAM ISLANDS (N.Z.)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
(FRANCE)
PATAGONIA
Laguna del Carbón (lowest point in South America and the Western Hemisphere, -105 m)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)
PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS (SOUTH AFRICA)
ÎLES CROZET (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) ÎLES KERGUELEN (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) AUCKLAND ISLANDS (N.Z.)
SNARES ISLANDS (N.Z.)
BOUNTY ISLANDS (N.Z.) ANTIPODES ISLANDS (N.Z.)
Stanley
Punta Arenas Bouvet Island (NORWAY)
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.)
Scotia Sea
60
Drake Passage
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA) SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
Macquarie Island (AUSTL.)
Campbell Island (N.Z.)
60
SOUTHERN OCEAN SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
Amery Ice Shelf
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Bellingshausen Sea Amundsen Sea
Weddell Sea
Ross Sea
Ross Sea
Ross Ice Shelf
150 120
+ Vinson Massif (highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)
April 2006
*Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the United States have reserved the right to do so) and they do not recognize the claims of the other nations.
Ronne Ice Shelf
A n t a r c t i c a*
Ross Ice Shelf
60 30 0 30 60 90 120 150 180
90
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
K
E
URUGUAY
(AUSTL.)
R
M
A
D
Perth
Lord Howe Island
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TO NG A
(FRANCE)
BOTSWANA
Bassas da India
NINE
F r e n c h
P o l y n e s i
OCEAN
NAMIBIA
MADAGASCAR
SaintDenis
(AUSTL.)
New Caledonia (FRANCE)
Nuku'alofa
TR EN CH
SOUTH PACIFIC a OCEAN
FIJI
Suva
BOLIVIA
ANO IPL ALT
Belo Horizonte
MOZAMBIQUE
Mozambique Channel
Antananarivo Port Louis MAURITIUS
ZIMBABWE
IB
Coral Sea Islands
Port-Vila
NA
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OC
M
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DESERT
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