Physical World

Physical Map of the World, June 2009
AUSTRALIA
Independent state
Bermuda
Dependency or area of special sovereignty
Island / island group
150
Capital
60
90
120
Ellesmere
Island
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Beaufort Sea
Greenland Sea
ISLANDS
Banks
Island
Resolute
Barrow
Victoria
Island
Norwegian
Sea
(NORWAY)
(U.S.)
(ECUADOR)
ECUADOR
Guayaquil
Belém
São Luís
Manaus
Iquitos
Fortaleza
REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO
Annobon
Brazzaville
RU
(St. Helena)
N
D
ILE
Buenos Aires
La Plata
Concepción
PATAGONIA
OCEAN
INS
MAURITIUS
Reunion
(FRANCE)
(FRANCE)
Gaborone
Pretoria Maputo
Johannesburg
(U.K.)
Mbabane
Maseru
IS
L A N
D S
)
-
-
A
(deepest point
of the Indian Ocean,
-7258 m)
Timor
Sea
Ashmore and
Cartier Islands
PAPUA
NEW GUINEA
Arafura
Sea
Darwin
(AUSTL.)
Gulf of
Carpentaria
Coral
Sea
Re
ef
(U.S.)
Port-Vila
Suva
(AUSTL.)
New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)
Nuku'Alofa
TONGA
Noumea
Tropic of Capricorn (23°27')
Alice Springs
A U S T R A L I A
Port
Elizabeth
Adelaide
(AUSTL.)
(AUSTL.)
Tasman Sea
Tasmania
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
30
NEW
ZEALAND
Île Saint-Paul
Gough Island
KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
Auckland
Melbourne
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
OCEAN
Lord Howe
Island
Newcastle
Sydney
Wollongong
Mount Kosciuszko
(highest point in
Australia, 2229 m)
Great Australian
Bight
Île Amsterdam
Canberra
SOUTH
PACIFIC
Norfolk
Island
Brisbane
Lake Eyre
(lowest point in
Australia, -15 m)
Perth
Wellington
Hobart
(FRANCE)
Christchurch
CHATHAM ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
ÎLES CROZET
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)
Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)
Heard Island and
McDonald Islands
(AUSTL.)
Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)
Scotia Sea
Drake
Passage
AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
ÎLES KERGUELEN
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Stanley
60
Tokelau
(N.Z.)
Wallis and
SAMOA
Futuna
Apia
Mata-Utu
Pago Pago
(FRANCE)
American
Samoa
FIJI
VANUATU
Coral Sea
Islands
Comodoro
Rivadavia
Laguna del Carbón
(lowest point in South
America and the Western
Hemisphere, -105 m)
Funafuti
TUVALU
Honiara
Cairns
Durban
(St. Helena)
K I R I B A T I
SOLOMON
ISLANDS
Port
Moresby
Cape Town
Punta Arenas
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
I
GREAT VICTORIA
DESERT
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
Mar del Plata
S
Banda Sea
NCH
LESOTHO SWAZILAND
SOUTH
AFRICA
GE
RID
PACIFIC
Bahía Blanca
Port Louis
Cocos
(Keeling) Islands
TRE
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
S
Puerto Montt
Montevideo
ARGENTINA
ANDE
SOUTH
Santiago
URUGUAY
Rosario
SaintDenis
OCEAN
(AUSTL.)
E
ARCHIPIÉLAGO
JUAN FERNÁNDEZ
(CHILE)
Mendoza
MADAGASCAR
Europa
Island
KALAHARI
DESERT
E
Dili
G
Valparaiso
(FRANCE)
N
TIMOR-LESTE
Kupang
ID
CHILE
Cerro Aconcagua
(highest point Córdoba
in South America,
6962 m)
Bassas
da India
O
Makassar
R
Pôrto
Alegre
30
St. Helena
Mozambique
Channel
Beira
BOTSWANA
Antananarivo
Christmas Island
0
Jayapura
(AUSTL.)
N
Joinville
Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)
INDIAN
EA
Santos
Florianópolis
Windhoek
(FRANCE)
MOZAMBIQUE
Bulawayo
Tromelin Island
OC
Easter Island
(CHILE)
Walvis Bay
Curitiba
San Miguel
de Tucumán
OCEAN
(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)
AN
Isla Sala y Gómez
(CHILE)
ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA
DESERT
Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)
São Paulo
Trindade
(BRAZIL)
Rio de
Janeiro
Campinas
Asunción
(BRAZIL)
Harare
IB
Antofagasta
Isla San Felíx
(CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio
(CHILE)
Martin Vaz
M I D - AT
LA NTIC
Adamstown
(Fr. Poly.)
Belo
Horizonte
Vitória
PARAGUAY
DESERT
ÎLES TUBUAI
(23°27')
ATLANTIC
M
Tropic of Capricorn
AMA
(FRANCE)
Campo
Grande
(St. Helena)
Mayotte
MALAWI
Blantyre
Lusaka
NA
P o l y n e s i a
Uberlândia
NO
ATAC
F r e n c h
Goiânia
Cochabamba
Santa
Cruz
Sucre
A
IPL
ALT
(Fr. Poly.)
La Paz
Namibe
D
Java Sea
(U.S.)
Baker Island (U.S.)
Yaren NAURU
District
Barrier
C
Niue
(N.Z.)
BOLIVIA
Arequipa
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU
(Fr. Poly.)
Papeete
St. Helena
(FRANCE)
COMOROS
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasilia
Moroni
Lilongwe
N
Jakarta
A
Howland Island
Tarawa
Equator
Semarang
Surabaya
Malang
JA
Denpasar
V
Diego
Garcia
Glorioso Islands
Ndola
Salvador
Lago
Titicaca
S
EN
SOCIETY
ISLANDS
ANGOLA
Celebes Sea
A
t
Grea
E
Cusco
H
NTA
Lubumbashi
Benguela
TR
(N.Z.)
Lake
Nyasa
Maceió
PALAU
Bandung
SEYCHELLES
Majuro
Palikir
Banjarmasin
TanjungkarangTelukbetung
(U.K.)
Melekeok
Pontianak Samarinda
I
British Indian
Ocean Territory
I
MID - IND
H
- C
BRAZIL
Victoria
Luanda
Recife
Pôrto Velho
PERU
I
Palembang
Dar es Salaam
TANZANIA
S
MARSHALL
ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
Davao
Bandar Seri
Begawan
BRUNEI
Y
Challenger Deep
(world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
SINGAPORE
Padang
Mombasa
Dodoma
Lake
Tanganyika
Pekanbaru
Mt. Kilimanjaro
(highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
BURUNDI
Mbuji-Mayi
Ascension
João Pessoa
Trujillo
Lima
Cook Islands
OF THE CONGO
Kinshasa
ANGOLA
Lake
Victoria
Bujumbura
SPRATLY
ISLANDS
Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A
Singapore
Mogadishu
Nairobi
RWANDA Kigali
Cebu
Zamboanga
Medan
MALDIVES
(U.S.)
Ho Chi Minh
City
NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)
KENYA
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC
Pointe-Noire
Kampala
Kisangani
Libreville
(Cabinda)
A
PE
ÎLES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)
UGANDA
(EQUA. GUI.)
Natal
SOMALIA
Colombo
SRI
LANKA
Male
Yaounde
(BRAZIL)
Teresina
K I R I B A T I
Malabo
Madurai
Laccadive
Sea
Douala
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Sao Tome
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Cochin
Phnom
Penh
Gulf of
Thailand
Andaman
Sea
NC
H
GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS
Juba
Coimbatore
Hagåtña
Guam
PHILIPPINES
TR
E
Jarvis
Island
(INDIA)
ETHIOPIA
Gulf of Guinea
Equator
Hargeysa
EY
LL
Calicut
South China
Sea
CAMBODIA
A
(BRAZIL)
Quito
(YEMEN)
ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)
TO
NG
Equator
Socotra
Chennai
Saipan
H
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
PENEDOS DE
SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
DJIBOUTI
Djibouti
Arabian
Sea LAKSHADWEEP
Gulf of Aden
Bangkok
Manila
(U.S.)
H
0
COLOMBIA
Cali
Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)
Addis
Ababa
Aden
(U.S.)
VIETNAM
Wake Island
C
D
N
Bogota
Lac 'Assal
(lowest point in
Africa, -155 m)
Bengal
THAILAND
Sea
PARACEL
ISLANDS
Da Nang
NC
Isla de
Malpelo
(COLOMBIA)
Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
(FRANCE)
SURINAME Cayenne
VENEZUELA
Medellín
A
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
Ciudad
Guayana
Mek’elē
Bengaluru
(Bangalore)
Rangoon
Northern
Mariana
Islands
TRE
Isla del Coco
(COSTA RICA)
E
PANAMA
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
Valencia
TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO
Bay of
Sanaa
SUDAN
Port-of-Spain
Asmara
Kassala
Khartoum
Vishākhapatnam
Vijayawāda
YEMEN
Philippine
Hainan
Dao
NE
(FRANCE)
Caracas
S
Clipperton Island
ST. VINCENT AND
THE GRENADINES
BARBADOS
Neth. Antilles
(NETH.)
GRENADA
Maracaibo
CHAD
Dakar
SENEGAL
Praia
Banjul
BURKINA Niamey
Bamako
FASO
THE GAMBIA
N'Djamena
Kano
Bissau
Ouagadougou
Nyala
GUINEA-BISSAU
GUINEA
BENIN
NIGERIA
Conakry
Abuja
CÔTE
TOGO
Freetown
D'IVOIRE GHANA
Ogbomoso
SIERRA
Ibadan
Yamoussoukro
CENTRAL
LEONE
Lagos
Lomé
AFRICAN
REPUBLIC
Accra
Monrovia
PortoAbidjan
CAMEROON
Novo
LIBERIA
Bangui
ERITREA
Luzon
Strait
IPPI
Barranquilla
Cartagena
San José
Colón
COSTA
Panama
Cúcuta
RICA
Omdurman
Chiang Vientiane
Mai
Taiwan
Kao-hsiung
PHIL
Managua
CAPE VERDE
DOMINICA
Martinique (FR.)
ST. LUCIA
(U.K.)
Hyderābād
NIGER
Gulf of
Tonkin
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
EN
Aruba
(NETH.)
NICARAGUA
EL SALVADOR
MALI
Tombouctou
Nay Pyi
Taw
Pune
LAOS
(U.S.)
(JAPAN)
R
Caribbean Sea
Tegucigalpa
Mumbai
Nouakchott
BURMA
INDIA
Marcus Island
K
T
Guatemala
San Salvador
HONDURAS
OMAN
K
Guangzhou
Nanning
Hong Kong
Zhanjiang Macau S.A.R.
S.A.R.
Haiphong
U
C
GUATEMALA
(U.S.)
MAURITANIA
Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.)
Montserrat
(U.S.)
' AL
B
RU
Port Sudan
Hanoi
Y
E
Belmopan
A
Mandalay
R
D
BELIZE
Oaxaca
Acapulco
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
HAITI Santo
Puerto
Navassa
Domingo Rico
Island
R
Xiamen
Midway
Islands
A
JAMAICA
Kingston
A
Taipei
Shantou
Jamshedpur
Khulna
Kolkata Chittagong
Nāgpur
Okinawa
Fuzhou
M
Johnston Atoll
Puebla
Santiago San Juan
Prince
H
BANGLADESH
Dhaka
Ahmadābād Bhopāl
Sūrat
Guiyang
Kunming
R
ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)
(U.K.)
A
Thimphu
Patna
30
E
Toluca
S
Chongqing
K
Cayman Is.
S
Chengdu
Lhasa
BHUTAN
Yokohama
Ōsaka
H
Cancún
YA
Karāchi
Indore
LI
HA
LA
Kānpur Lucknow
Hyderābād
ARABIA
Red Jiddah
Sea Mecca
A
Tokyo
Nagoya
Hiroshima
Fukuoka
Nanjing
Nantong
Hefei
Shanghai
Wuhan
Hangzhou
Ningbo
East China
Nanchang
Changsha
Sea
Mt. Everest
(highest point in Asia
and the world, 8850 m)
NEPAL
Kathmandu
Āgra
Jaipur
Xi'an
Pusan
NC
Mérida
Mexico
U.S.
Turks and
Milwaukee Deep
Caicos Islands (deepest point of the
(U.K.)
Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m)
British Virgin
DOMINICAN
Islands
REPUBLIC
(U.K.)
Port-auAnguilla (U.K.)
CUBA
IM
Yellow
Sea
Zhengzhou
PACIFIC
OCEAN
JAPAN
Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA
ANA TRE
Guadalajara
Honolulu
León
Medina
Aswān
CHINA
Ludhiāna
New
Delhi
PAKISTAN
BAHRAIN Persian
OMAN
Gulf
Manama
Abu
Doha
Riyadh
Dhabi
Gulf of Oman
QATAR UNITED ARAB
Muscat
EMIRATES
Lanzhou
RI
San Luis
Potosí
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
N
Havana
H
Dalian
Yantai
Zibo
Jinan
Qingdao
NORTH
Sea of
Japan
A
MEXICO
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Zāhedān
Lahore
Faisalābād
Multān
Quetta
SAUDI
EGYPT
Western
Sahara
¯
Shirāz
Tianjin
Shijiazhuang
Taiyuan
M
Gulf of Mexico
THE
Nassau
BAHAMAS
M I
D AT
L A
Matamoros
Miami
Line of
Actual
Control
Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,
administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sapporo
TO
Monterrey
Torreón
Laayoune
Kandahār
IRAN
KUWAIT
Kuwait
Dead Sea
(lowest point in
Asia, -408 m)
Peshāwar
AFGHANISTAN Islamabad
Eşfahān
Ahvāz
1972
Line of Control
Kabul
Herāt
NORTH KOREA
Pyongyang
Datong
Indian
claim
Vladivostok
Shenyang
DESERT
Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN
Jilin
Beijing
TAKLA MAKAN
Kashi
Changchun
AN
LIBYA
T
Tampa
Jerusalem
Al Jizah
¯
ALGERIA
IRAQ
Damascus
Baghdad
Amman
Al Başrah
JORDAN
Cairo
CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)
Qom
Kermanshah
DE
BI
Baotou
Mashhad
Tehran
Arbil
GO
T
SER
(
Orlando
Aleppo
KURIL
ISLANDS
Harbin
Ürümqi
KYRGYZSTAN
UZBEKISTAN
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar
S.
Bishkek
Tashkent
TURKMENISTAN
Ashgabat
Tabriz
¯
SYRIA
ISRAEL
Alexandria
(lowest point in
Europe, -28 m)
Mosul
Tel Aviv-Yafo
Banghāzī
MOROCCO
Jacksonville
San
Antonio
Chihuahua
Tripoli
Marrakech
Shymkent
AZERBAIJAN
Yerevan
T
MONGOLIA
Almaty
Caspian
Sea
S.
M
Aral
Sea
Baku
Gaziantep
CYPRUS Beirut
LEBANON
(GR.)
S M
T
ARMENIA
Nicosia
Crete
Y
Lake Balkhash
Aqtaü
(Aktau)
Tbilisi
URKEY
A
S
ND
ISLA
HO
- S
P O PAN)
JA
New
Houston Orleans
Austin
D
Valletta
Mediterranean Sea
Fès
GEORGIA
Adana
LT
AL
EUT
IAN
M
Ciudad
Juarez
I
Casablanca
Gora El'brus
(highest point in
Europe, 5633 m)
CAU
CAS
U
Ankara
Sakhalin
AP
(U.K.)
Tunis
TUNISIA
(SP.)
Atyraü
Astrakhan'
Black Sea
(IT.)
MALTA
Constantine
Oran
Athens
A
U.S.
PetropavlovskKamchatskiy
Chita
U
Bermuda
Dallas
El Paso
G
Palermo
Sicily
Irkutsk
Astana
KAZAKHSTAN
Rostov
Sea of
Okhotsk
Barnaul
Volgograd
Sea of
Azov
Bursa
.
T
Izmir
Konya
Lake
Baikal
Novosibirsk
Omsk
Orenburg
Saratov
Istanbul
GREECE
(IT.)
Algiers
Gibraltar (U.K.)
Melilla
Rabat
MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)
Sardinia
BALEARIC
ISLANDS
(SP.)
Ufa
Krasnoyarsk
NA
San Diego
Tijuana Mexicali
30
OCEAN
Atlanta
Phoenix
Sevilla
Málaga
Ceuta (SP.)
E
Valencia
60
(J
Oklahoma City
Lisbon
AZORES
(PORT.)
ATLANTIC
SPAIN
Naples
Yakutsk
Y
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
UKRAINE
MONT.
Skopje
Tirana
MACEDONIA
ALB.
Rome
CITY
Barcelona
Madrid
PORTUGAL
NORTH
STATES
AUSTRIA
Provideniya
Bering Sea
Tomsk
Qaraghandy
(Karaganda)
Kharkiv
Donets'k
MOLDOVA
Chisinau
Odesa
SLOVAKIA
Bratislava
Budapest
Vienna
LIECH.
(FR.)
Porto
R
OCEAN
(FRANCE)
Halifax
Lake Ontario
CZECH REP.
Munich
Anadyr'
Tyumen'
Yekaterinburg
Chelyabinsk
Kyiv
L'viv
A
E
Death Valley
(lowest point in
North America, -86 m)
Paris
Kraków
SLOVENIA
HUNGARY
Bern S
ROMANIA
Lyon SWITZ. A L P Ljubljana
Milan
CROATIA
Bay of
Belgrade
Zagreb
Bordeaux
Turin
Bucharest
SAN
BOS. &
Biscay
MARINO
HER.
SERBIA
Toulouse
MONACO Genoa
Sarajevo
Pristina
Sofia
ITALY
Marseille
Bilbao
Podgorica KOS.
Corsica
BULGARIA
VATICAN
ANDORRA
St. Pierre
and Miquelon
Buffalo S Boston
Detroit
N
Chicago
AI
Lake
NT Providence
Cleveland
Erie OU
New York
M
Indianapolis
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Saint
Cincinnati
Baltimore
N
Louis
IA
Washington DC
H
AC
L
A
P
Norfolk
AP
Nashville
Charlotte
Kansas City
Guernsey(U.K.)
Jersey (U.K.)
FRANCE
Montréal
Prague
I
Magadan
Izhevsk
Samara
Voronezh
Homyel
POLAND
GERMANY
R
R U S S I A
Kazan'
Ul'yanovsk
Minsk
Lódz
Cologne
Nizhniy
Novgorod
Moscow
BELARUS
Warsaw
.
E
RIDG
Sacramento
San Francisco
Québec
Berlin
Amsterdam
BELGIUM LUX. Frankfurt
Luxembourg
Gulf of
St. Lawrence
UNITED
Denver
KINGDOM
B
Perm'
Yaroslavl'
LAT.
Hamburg
NETH.
London Brussels
Lille
Celtic
Sea
I C
PACIFIC
Toronto
Milwaukee
(U.K.)
Leeds
EST.
LITH.
Vilnius
RUSSIA
I
ST
NTAINS
Salt Lake City
Sea
TYEA
MOU
NORTH
Lake
Michigan
Minneapolis
Isle of
Man
Birmingham
Island of
Newfoundland
Lake
Huron
Ottawa
Baltic
Sea Riga
DENMARK
Copenhagen
S
NINE
Y
Dublin
IRELAND
Winnipeg
Lake
Superior
UNITED
Belfast
Happy ValleyGoose Bay
Lake
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
North
Sea
Lake
Onega
Saint Petersburg
Tallinn
(U.K.)
Glasgow
Lake
Ladoga
Helsinki
Stockholm
Rockall
Labrador
Sea
FINLAND
Gulf
of
Bothnia
(DEN.)
Oslo
Kuujjuaq
Arkhangel'sk
OU
Reykjavík
URA
Edmonton
White Sea
SWEDEN
Faroe
Islands
L
NORWAY
ICELAND
Vancouver
Portland
Chukchi
Cherskiy
M
Davis
Strait
Denmark
Strait
Hudson
Bay
CANADA
Calgary
Seattle
Murmansk
VA
I
(Godthåb)
Tórshavn
Fort McMurray
CK
TIAN
RO
ALEU
Iqaluit
Churchill
DS
SLAN
Pevek
Noril'sk
T
60
Prince
George
Wrangel
Island
Tiksi
Jan Mayen
Nuuk
Great
Slave Lake
Whitehorse
Juneau
East Siberian Sea
(DENMARK)
Baffin
Island
Great
Bear Lake
Mt. McKinley
(highest point in
North America, 6194 m)
Gulf of Alaska
Laptev Sea
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Fairbanks
Anchorage
Barents Sea
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Kara Sea
RIF
U. S.
ARCTIC OCEAN
SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA
NOVAYA
ZEMLYA
Svalbard
(NORWAY)
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Nome
180
Longyearbyen
Greenland
Baffin
Bay
Pond Inlet
Molloy Deep
(deepest point of the
Arctic Ocean, -5607 m)
150
120
FRANZ JOSEF
LAND
ARCTIC OCEAN
Qaanaaq (Thule)
90
60
30
0
Alert
ARCTIC OCEAN
Scale 1:35,000,000
Robinson Projection
standard parallels 38°N and 38°S
30
GRE
AT
Sicily / AZORES
Macquarie
Island
South Georgia and
South Sandwich Islands
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS
SNARES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
BOUNTY ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
ANTIPODES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
Campbell
Island
(N.Z.)
(AUSTL.)
60
South Sandwich Trench
(deepest point of the
Southern Ocean, -8325 m)
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
Amery Ice
Shelf
Bellingshausen Sea
Weddell Sea
Amundsen Sea
Ross Sea
+
Vinson Massif
(highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)
Ross
Ice Shelf
150
120
Ronne Ice Shelf
90
Ross Sea
Antarctica
Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative countries 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 countries.
60
30
0
30
Ross Ice Shelf
June 2009
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
60
90
120
150
180
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