Physical Map of the World, April 2008
Independent state
AUSTRALIA
Bermuda
Dependency or area of special sovereignty
Island / island group
150
Capital
90
120
60
30
ARCTIC OCEAN
Scale 1:35,000,000
Robinson Projection
standard parallels 38°N and 38°S
Ellesmere
Island
Banks
Island
Norwegian
Sea
Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)
Chukchi
Sea
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
ARGENTINA
TAINS
MO
L
(FRANCE)
Europa Island
(FRANCE)
Pretoria
E
Christmas Island
NC
(AUSTL.)
Cocos
(Keeling) Islands
AFRICA
E
H
S
OCEAN
Arafura
Sea
TIMOR-LESTE
NC
SOLOMON
ISLANDS
(deepest point of the
Indian Ocean, -7258 m)
Ashmore and
Cartier Islands
Timor
Sea
Gulf of
Carpentaria
(AUSTL.)
Mbabane
SWAZILAND
Coral Sea
Islands
(U.S.)
Port-Vila
Suva
Nuku'alofa
TONGA
Noumea
Tropic of Capricorn (23°27')
A U S T R A L I A
E
Lake Eyre
(lowest point in
Australia, -15 m)
SOUTH
PACIFIC
Norfolk
Island
Brisbane
(AUSTL.)
Durban
Perth
(AUSTL.)
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
Île Saint-Paul
Sydney
Mount Kosciuszko
(highest point in
Australia, 2229m)
Great Australian
Bight
Île Amsterdam
30
Auckland
Melbourne
NEW
ZEALAND
Tasman Sea
S
D
RI
(St. Helena)
KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
OCEAN
Lord Howe
Island
Canberra
Tasmania
Wellington
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Christchurch
G
(FRANCE)
E
CHATHAM ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)
ÎLES CROZET
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
SNARES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
ÎLES KERGUELEN
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Heard Island and
McDonald Islands
(AUSTL.)
Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)
Drake
Passage
American
Samoa
FIJI
VANUATU
New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)
GREAT VICTORIA
DESERT
Stanley
60
SAMOA
Apia
Mata-Utu
(FRANCE)
Pago Pago
(AUSTL.)
Cape
Town
Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)
Scotia Sea
Tokelau
(N.Z.)
Wallis and
Futuna
Coral
Sea
Re
ef
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Laguna del Carbón
(lowest point in South
America and the Western
Hemisphere, -105 m)
Funafuti
TUVALU
Honiara
Port
Moresby
Gough Island
PATAGONIA
PAPUA
NEW GUINEA
Dili
H
(AUSTL.)
A
Alice Springs
G
Maputo
I
K I R I B A T I
Bismarck Sea
Banda Sea
Surabaya
Bandung
LESOTHO
SOUTH Maseru
(U.K.)
Punta Arenas
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
R
N
Howland Island (U.S.)
Baker Island (U.S.)
0
TO
NG
AT
RE
NC
H
Reunion
T
O
Java Sea
ID
URUGUAY
MADAGASCAR
Port
Louis
MAURITIUS
Gaborone
Johannesburg
Tarawa
Equator
R
Santiago
ANDE
ARCHIPIÉLAGO
JUAN FERNÁNDEZ
(CHILE)
Córdoba
Cerro Aconcagua
(highest point in South America,
6962 m)
KALAHARI
DESERT
T
Pôrto
Alegre
CHILE
St. Helena
(FRANCE)
SaintDenis
INDIAN
N
São Paulo
Asunción
30
BOTSWANA
Walvis Bay
Antananarivo
Mozambique
Channel
Bassas
da India
(FRANCE)
EA
Rio de Janeiro
MI
D-A
TLA NTIC
Easter Island
(CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio
(CHILE)
Windhoek
DESER
Isla San Felíx
(CHILE)
Isla Sala y Gómez
(CHILE)
PARAGUAY
OCEAN
Tromelin Island
MOZAMBIQUE
ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA
(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)
OC
(BRAZIL)
DESERT
Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)
(BRAZIL)
IB
Trindade
AMA
Adamstown
Martin Vaz
(FRANCE)
Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)
Harare
M
ATAC
(23°27')
ÎLES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)
ANO
IPL
ALT
Tropic of Capricorn
Belo
Horizonte
MALAWI
Lusaka
ATLANTIC
BOLIVIA
(FRANCE)
(St. Helena)
NA
SOUTH PACIFIC
a
OCEAN
Glorioso Islands
Mayotte
Lilongwe
Namibe
St. Helena
Diego
Garcia
COMOROS
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasília
Celebes Sea
A
Barrier
Lago
Titicaca
La Paz
S
I
PALAU
t
Grea
D
P o l y n e s i
EN
F r e n c h
E
H
S
D
Jakarta
A
N
TR
(Fr. Poly.)
Moroni
ANGOLA
N
V
A
SOCIETY
ISLANDS
Niue
(N.Z.)
Papeete
C
Lake
Nyasa
Lubumbashi
Salvador
(U.K.)
Dar es Salaam
SEYCHELLES
E
Cook Islands
TANZANIA
I
British Indian
Ocean Territory
MID - INDIAN
L
HI
- C
Lima
Dodoma
Luanda
(St. Helena)
BRAZIL
Victoria
JA
RU
Ascension
PERU
BRUNEI
Yaren NAURU
District
Mt. Kilimanjaro
(highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
BURUNDI
Lake
Tanganyika
(Cabinda)
PE
ÎLES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)
UN
OF THE CONGO
Kinshasa
ANGOLA
Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A Y
Singapore
SINGAPORE
Majuro
Palikir
Nairobi
Lake
Victoria
Bujumbura
REPUBLIC
Fortaleza
Mogadishu
KENYA
RWANDA Kigali
Brazzaville
Medan
MALDIVES
DEMOCRATIC
(EQUA. GUI.)
(BRAZIL)
Bandar Seri
Begawan
Male
Melekeok
H
Annobon
SRI
LANKA
MARSHALL
ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
C
Libreville REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO
São Tome
SPRATLY
ISLANDS
NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)
(U.S.)
Challenger Deep
(world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
N
Manaus
UGANDA
Kampala
Ho Chi Minh City
Guam
E
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Equator
SOMALIA
Colombo
PHILIPPINES
R
Guayaquil
Yaoundé
Gulf of Guinea
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Belém
Bangui
Phnom Penh
Gulf of
Thailand
Saipan
Hagåtña
T
(ECUADOR)
ECUADOR
CAMEROON
Laccadive
Sea
South China
Sea
CAMBODIA
Andaman
Sea
(INDIA)
EY
LL
ETHIOPIA
CENTRAL
AFRICAN REPUBLIC
ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)
Chennai
LAKSHADWEEP
Addis
Ababa
Abuja
(YEMEN)
Bangkok
C
GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS
(U.S.)
NIGERIA
Socotra
Djibouti
Bengaluru
(U.S.)
Manila
VIETNAM
(U.S.)
E
Jarvis
Island
N'Djamena
DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
Bengal
Arabian
Sea
Sea
PARACEL
ISLANDS
THAILAND
Wake Island
D
(BRAZIL)
Quito
Lac 'Assal
(lowest point in Africa,
-155 m)
Sanaa
Rangoon
Northern
Mariana
Islands
A
PENEDOS DE
SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
SUDAN
Malabo
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
COLOMBIA
Equator
Niamey
Asmara
Philippine
Hainan
Dao
M
Cali
Bogotá
Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
(FRANCE)
SURINAME Cayenne
CHAD
Gulf of
Vientiane Tonkin
R
S
D
N
Isla de
Malpelo
A
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
VENEZUELA
SENEGAL
Khartoum
Bay of
YEMEN
ERITREA
S.A.R.
LAOS
CH
TREN
Medellín
Isla del Coco
(COSTA RICA)
NIGER
Hong Kong
Luzon Strait
Macau S.A.R.
Hanoi
Nay Pyi
Taw
- Hyderabad
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Taiwan
Mandalay
BURMA
INDIA
(JAPAN)
E
PPIN
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO
Caracas
OMAN
MALI
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
Port-of-Spain
Maracaibo
COSTA RICA Panama
PANAMA
Praia
I
AL
KH
Y
(U.S.)
Marcus Island
I
PHIL
(FRANCE)
Martinique (FR.)
ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA
THE GRENADINES
BARBADOS
Neth. Antilles
(NETH.)
GRENADA
L
B' A
RU
Mumbai
Tombouctou
Dakar
(U.K.)
ARABIA
MAURITANIA
CAPE VERDE
DOMINICA
Jiddah
Kolkata Dhaka
- Ahmadabad
K
E
Aruba
(NETH.)
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.)
Montserrat
A
R
Muscat
U
Midway
Islands
K
Caribbean Sea
San José
Clipperton Island
Santo Puerto
Domingo Rico
(U.S.)
GUATEMALA HONDURAS
Tegucigalpa
Guatemala
San Salvador
NICARAGUA
EL SALVADOR
Managua
(U.S.)
Navassa
Island
HAITI
R
Taipei
BANGLADESH
¯
Karachi
UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
Okinawa
A TRE
Kingston
Nouakchott
A
Thimphu
Kanpur
30
IAN
JAMAICA
BELIZE
Belmopan
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
H
Kathmandu
East China
Sea
Chongqing
BHUTAN
AR
Puebla
A
AS
Shanghai
Wuhan
M
Prince
(U.K.)
E
ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)
Cayman Is.
QATAR
AY
NEPAL
OMAN
Abu
Dhabi
Manama
Doha
Riyadh
Red
Sea
PAKISTAN
Persian
Gulf
Chengdu
(highest point in Asia
and the world, 8850 m)
-
I C
T
N
M I
D AT
L A
Mexico
EGYPT
BAHRAIN
Mt. Everest
AL
Yokohama
O
Guadalajara
SAUDI
Pusan
OT
HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS
ALGERIA
Western
Sahara
IM
New
Delhi
KUWAIT
LIBYA
H
Lahore
Kuwait
Laayoune
(El Aaiún)
S
¯
Islamabad
IRAN
CHINA
Line of
Actual
Control
Tokyo
Osaka
N)
PA
CUBA
Baghdad
Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
Yellow
Sea
PACIFIC
OCEAN
JAPAN
Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA
H
- S
MEXICO
Honolulu
AFGHANISTAN
Tianjin
Indian
claim
JORDAN
Cairo
CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)
IRAQ
NORTH KOREA Japan
Pyongyang
(JA
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
Jerusalem
Amman
Kabul
NORTH
Sea of
Beijing
PO
Havana
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Damascus
Shenyang
DESERT
1972
Line of Control
Mashhad
occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,
administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sapporo
M
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
THE
BAHAMAS
Nassau
Miami
LEB.
Beirut
RT
TAKLA MAKAN
Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN
Ashgabat
Tehran
SYRIA
Tashkent
TURKMENISTAN
Aleppo
CYPRUS
(GR.)
MOROCCO
Gulf of Mexico
Monterrey
Rabat
Baku
TURKEY
Nicosia
Crete
Tripoli
Houston
30
Yerevan
SE
-
D
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
G
Bishkek
KYRGYZSTAN
DE
I
OB
IS
L A N
D S
AN
)
I
Casablanca
UZBEKISTAN
(lowest point in
Europe, -28 m)
KURIL
ISLANDS
MONGOLIA
Ürümqi
¯
Mediterranean Sea
(SP.)
MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)
S.
Caspian
Sea
Athens
Tunis MALTA
Valletta
TUNISIA
Melilla
E
·Izmir
US
MT
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar
.
Aral
Sea
Tbilisi
Ankara
S
NA
OCEAN
(U.K.)
G
GEORGIA
(IT.)
Algiers
Gibraltar(U.K.)
CAU
C AS
BULGARIA
Skopje
Istanbul
GREECE
(IT.)
Sicily
Ceuta (SP.)
Gora El'brus
(highest point in Europe,
5633 m)
Sea of
Azov
ALB. MACEDONIA
Sardinia
BALEARIC
ISLANDS
(SP.)
T
U
Bermuda
Tijuana
SPAIN
AZORES
(PORT.)
ATLANTIC
Dallas
Barcelona
KOS.
MONT.
Tirana
Rome
M
AP
NORTH
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Madrid
VATICAN
CITY
(FR.)
AY
Lake Balkhash
Black Sea
Sofia
Pristina
LT
KAZAKHSTAN
SER.
ITALY Sarajevo
Podgorica
Corsica
ANDORRA
Washington, D.C.
A
Kharkiv
Y
N
SLOVAKIA
(U.S.)
Sakhalin
E
A
HI
AC
Astana
UKRAINE
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Irkutsk
Kyiv
BOS. & HER.
MARINO
MONACO
Marseille
PORTUGAL
Lisbon
Samara
Sea of
Okhotsk
(J
(FRANCE)
Lake Ontario
Lake
Baikal
Novosibirsk
Omsk
BELARUS
Bratislava
MOLDOVA
SWITZ.
AUSTRIA
Budapest
Chi sinau
FRANCE
S
HUNGARY
Bern L P SLOVENIA
ROMANIA
Odesa
A
Ljubljana
Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest
Milan SAN
Bay of
Biscay
St. Pierre
and Miquelon
Bering Sea
Vienna
LIECH.
60
RIDG
Denver
L
PA
AP
Montréal
Boston
NS
AI
T
N
OU
New York
M
Philadelphia
Lake Erie
STATES
Paris
Moscow
Prague
CZECH REP.
A
ST
Detroit
Chicago
Luxembourg
BELGIUM
LUX.
I
Yakutsk
NINE
Toronto
Berlin
GERMANY
Brussels
Guernsey (U.K.)
Jersey (U.K.)
Gulf of
St. Lawrence
Lake
Michigan
UNITED
Celtic
Sea
NETH.
R
Yekaterinburg
Minsk
VA
Death Valley
(lowest point in
North America, -86 m)
Minneapolis
London
POLAND
Warsaw
Hamburg
Amsterdam
KINGDOM
E
TY E A
Island of
Newfoundland
Isle of
Man (U.K.)
B
URA
Dublin
IRELAND
Lake
Winnipeg
Vilnius
RUSSIA
I
R U S S I A
Nizhniy
Novgorod
RIF
T
San Francisco
Belfast
Saint Petersburg
Tallinn EST.
Baltic
LAT.
Sea Riga
LITH.
North
DENMARK
Sea Copenhagen
UNITED
Edmonton
Lake
Huron
Ottawa
Helsinki
Stockholm
Labrador
Sea
Lake
Superior
FINLAND
Gulf
of
Bothnia
(DEN.)
Tórshavn
Rockall
CANADA
M O U NT A I N S
PACIFIC
Faroe
Islands
Reykjavík
S
White Sea
SWEDEN
(U.K.)
Y
NORTH
Nuuk (Godthåb)
NORWAY
ICELAND
Denmark
Strait
Oslo
Vancouver
Seattle
Wrangel
Island
East Siberian Sea
GRE
AT
ROCK
DS
LAN
N IS
TIA
ALEU
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU
(Fr. Poly.)
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Laptev Sea
Barents Sea
Hudson
Bay
Gulf of Alaska
(N.Z.)
Kara Sea
(DENMARK)
Davis
Strait
60
K I R I B A T I
ARCTIC OCEAN
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Great
Slave Lake
Whitehorse
Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)
180
SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA
NOVAYA
ZEMLYA
(NORWAY)
Greenland
Baffin
Island
Great
Bear Lake
Anchorage
Johnston Atoll
Svalbard
150
120
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Mt. McKinley
(highest point in North America, 6194 m)
(U.S.)
90
Longyearbyen
Baffin
Bay
Victoria
Island
U. S.
OCEAN
60
FRANZ JOSEF
LAND
Greenland Sea
ISLANDS
Barrow
30
ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Beaufort Sea
0
0
R
Sicily / AZORES
Macquarie
Island
(AUSTL.)
South Georgia and the
South Sandwich Islands
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)
BOUNTY ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
ANTIPODES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
Campbell
Island
(N.Z.)
60
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
Amery Ice
Shelf
Bellingshausen Sea
Weddell Sea
Amundsen Sea
Ross Sea
Ross Sea
+
Vinson Massif
(highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)
Ross
Ice Shelf
150
120
Ross Ice Shelf
90
April 2008
A n t a r c t i c a*
Ronne Ice Shelf
60
30
0
30
60
90
120
150
*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.
180
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
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