Physical Map of the World, January 2011

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)

(ECUADOR)

Guayaquil

Belm
So Lus

Manaus

Iquitos

REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO

Fortaleza

Brazzaville
Pointe-Noire

RU

Joo Pessoa

Trujillo

ILE

Lubumbashi

EN

Buenos Aires
La Plata

Concepcin

PATAGONIA

OCEAN

INS

(FRANCE)

(FRANCE)

Johannesburg

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

TRE

IS
L A N
D S
)

AN

Banda Sea

NCH

(deepest point
of the Indian Ocean,
-7258 m)

Timor
Sea

Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

Mbabane

PAPUA
NEW GUINEA

Arafura
Sea

Gulf of
Carpentaria

Coral
Sea

Cairns

Tokelau
(N.Z.)
Wallis and
SAMOA
Futuna
Apia
Mata-Utu
Pago Pago
(FRANCE)
American
Samoa

FIJI

VANUATU

Coral Sea
Islands

Re
ef

(U.S.)

Port-Vila

Suva

(AUSTL.)

New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)

Nuku'Alofa

TONGA

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Alice Springs

A U S T R A L I A

Durban

(AUSTL.)

Perth

Port
Elizabeth

Adelaide

(AUSTL.)

Tasman Sea

Tasmania

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

30

NEW
ZEALAND

le 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

le Amsterdam

Canberra

SOUTH
PACIFIC

Norfolk
Island

Brisbane

Lake Eyre
(lowest point in
Australia, -15 m)

GREAT VICTORIA
DESERT

Wellington

Hobart

(FRANCE)

Christchurch

CHATHAM ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
LES 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.)

LES KERGUELEN
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Stanley

60

Funafuti

TUVALU

Honiara

Comodoro
Rivadavia

Laguna del Carbn

(lowest point in South
America and the Western
Hemisphere, -105 m)

K I R I B A T I

SOLOMON
ISLANDS

Port
Moresby

Darwin

(AUSTL.)

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

Mar del Plata

Cape Town

Punta Arenas

Antarctic Circle (6633')

(AUSTL.)

LESOTHO SWAZILAND
Maseru

URA

Reunion

Pretoria Maputo

SOUTH
AFRICA

GE
RID

PACIFIC

Baha Blanca

MAURITIUS

Christmas Island

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Puerto Montt

Montevideo

ARGENTINA

ANDE

SOUTH

Santiago

URUGUAY

Rosario

Port Louis

Gaborone

(U.K.)

Dili

ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)

Mendoza

MADAGASCAR

Europa
Island

KALAHARI
DESERT

TIMOR-LESTE
Kupang

Valparaiso

(FRANCE)

SaintDenis

OCEAN

ID

CHILE

Cerro Aconcagua
(highest point Crdoba
in South America,
6962 m)

Bassas
da India

Prto
Alegre

30

Saint Helena, Ascension,

and Tristan da Cunha

BOTSWANA

Antananarivo

Mozambique
Channel

Beira

O
Makassar

(AUSTL.)

Joinville

Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)

INDIAN

EA

Santos

Florianpolis

Windhoek

(FRANCE)

MOZAMBIQUE

Bulawayo

Tromelin Island

OC

Easter Island
(CHILE)

Walvis Bay

Curitiba

San Miguel
de Tucumn

OCEAN

(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)

AN

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)

ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA

DESERT

Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)

So Paulo

Trindade
(BRAZIL)

Rio de
Janeiro

Campinas

Asuncin

(BRAZIL)

Harare

IB

Antofagasta

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio
(CHILE)

Martin Vaz

M I D - AT
LA NTIC

Adamstown

(Fr. Poly.)

Belo
Horizonte
Vitria

PARAGUAY

DESERT

LES TUBUAI

(2327')

Campo
Grande

ATLANTIC

Tropic of Capricorn

AMA

(FRANCE)

Uberlndia

Saint Helena

NA

P o l y n e s i a

Goinia

Cochabamba
Santa
Cruz
Sucre

NO

F r e n c h

ATAC

(Fr. Poly.)

La Paz
A
IPL
ALT

Niue
(N.Z.)

BOLIVIA

Arequipa

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU

(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

Mayotte

MALAWI
Blantyre

Lusaka

Java Sea

Jayapura

Barrier

SOCIETY
ISLANDS

Namibe

(FRANCE)

COMOROS

ZAMBIA

SOUTH

Braslia

Moroni

Lilongwe

N
Jakarta

(U.S.)

Baker Island (U.S.)

Yaren NAURU
District

Semarang
Surabaya
Malang
JA
Denpasar
V

Diego
Garcia

Howland Island

Tarawa

Equator

Bandung

Glorioso Islands

Ndola

Salvador

Lago
Titicaca

(U.K.)

Celebes Sea

t
Grea

E
Cusco

TR

(N.Z.)

ANGOLA

Benguela

PALAU

Banjarmasin

TanjungkarangTelukbetung

SEYCHELLES

Lake
Nyasa

Macei

Majuro

Palikir

Pontianak Samarinda

British Indian
Ocean Territory

I
MID - IND

H
- C

BRAZIL

Victoria

Luanda

Recife

Prto Velho

PERU

Palembang

Dar es Salaam

TANZANIA

Bandar Seri
Begawan
BRUNEI

SINGAPORE

Padang

Mombasa

Dodoma

Lake
Tanganyika

Pekanbaru

Mt. Kilimanjaro
(highest point in Africa, 5895 m)

BURUNDI

Mbuji-Mayi

Ascension

Lima
Cook Islands

OF THE CONGO

(Cabinda)

Lake
Victoria

Bujumbura

Kinshasa

ANGOLA

Mogadishu
Nairobi

RWANDA Kigali

REPUBLIC

MALDIVES

KENYA

DEMOCRATIC

(EQUA. GUI.)

(BRAZIL)

Kampala

Kisangani

Libreville

Annobon

ARQUIPLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA

Natal

PE

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

UGANDA

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tom

Teresina

K I R I B A T I

Yaound

Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A
Singapore

Melekeok

Davao

Zamboanga

Medan

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

NC
H

(U.S.)

ECUADOR

Malabo

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Male

Douala

Gulf of Guinea

Equator

SOMALIA

Colombo
SRI
LANKA

Challenger Deep
(world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)

TR
E

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

Juba

Laccadive
Sea

Cebu

Jarvis
Island

ETHIOPIA

Madurai

(U.S.)

Ho Chi Minh
City

TO
NG

(BRAZIL)

Quito

Cochin

Phnom
Penh
Gulf of
Thailand

Andaman
Sea

Equator

(INDIA)

Coimbatore

Hagta
Guam

PHILIPPINES

EQUATORIAL GUINEA
PENEDOS DE
SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

Hargeysa

EY
LL

Calicut

South China
Sea

CAMBODIA

COLOMBIA

Cali

Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)

(YEMEN)

ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

(U.S.)

Bogot

Socotra

Chennai

Saipan

Manila

NC

Isla de
Malpelo
(COLOMBIA)

Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
(FRANCE)
SURINAME Cayenne

VENEZUELA

Medelln

Addis
Ababa

DJIBOUTI
Djibouti

Arabian
Sea LAKSHADWEEP

Gulf of Aden

Bangkok

Wake Island

Ciudad
Guayana

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

PANAMA

Isla del Coco

(COSTA RICA)

TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO

Aden

(U.S.)

VIETNAM

TRE

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

Valencia
Ccuta

RICA

Port-of-Spain

Lac 'Assal
(lowest point in
Africa, -155 m)

Bengal

Northern
Mariana
Islands

Sea

PARACEL
ISLANDS

Da Nang

THAILAND

Philippine

Hainan
Dao

NE

(FRANCE)

Clipperton Island

Mekele

Bengaluru
(Bangalore)

Rangoon

Luzon
Strait

IPPI

San Jos
Coln Panama
COSTA
City

Caracas

Maracaibo

Sanaa

SUDAN

GRENADA

Barranquilla
Cartagena

Bay of

Chiang Vientiane
Mai

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Taiwan
Kao-hsiung

PHIL

Managua

Asmara

Kassala

Khartoum

Vishakhapatnam

Vijayawada

YEMEN

Gulf of
Tonkin

(U.S.)

(JAPAN)

(NETH.)

CHAD

Dakar
SENEGAL
Praia
Banjul
BURKINA Niamey
Bamako
FASO
THE GAMBIA
N'Djamena
Kano
Bissau
Ouagadougou
Nyala
GUINEA-BISSAU
GUINEA
BENIN
NIGERIA
Conakry
Abuja
CTE
TOGO
Freetown
D'IVOIRE GHANA
Ogbomoso
SIERRA
Ibadan
Yamoussoukro
CENTRAL
LEONE
Lagos
Lom
AFRICAN
REPUBLIC
Accra
Monrovia
PortoAbidjan
CAMEROON
Novo
LIBERIA
Bangui

ERITREA

LAOS

Marcus Island

Aruba

NICARAGUA

EL SALVADOR

CAPE VERDE

Omdurman

Nay Pyi
Taw

Pune
Hyderabad

NIGER

BURMA

INDIA

MALI
Tombouctou

DOMINICA
Martinique (FR.)
ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA
THE GRENADINES
BARBADOS
Curacao (NETH.)

OMAN

Mumbai

Nouakchott

(U.K.)

' AL

B
RU

Port Sudan

MAURITANIA

Montserrat

Caribbean Sea

Tegucigalpa

Guangzhou
Nanning
Hong Kong
Zhanjiang Macau S.A.R.
S.A.R.
Haiphong

Guatemala City
San Salvador

HONDURAS

Hanoi

GUATEMALA

(U.S.)

Mandalay

(U.S.)

(U.S.)

Xiamen

Midway
Islands

Belmopan

Acapulco

Taipei

BELIZE

Oaxaca

HAITI Santo Puerto

Navassa
Domingo Rico
Island

Okinawa

Fuzhou

Shantou

Jamshedpur
Khulna
Kolkata Chittagong

Nagpur

Surat

Guiyang
Kunming

JAMAICA
Kingston

Anguilla (U.K.)
Saint-Martin (FR.)
Sint Maarten (NETH.)
Saint Barthelemy (FR.)
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Guadeloupe (FR.)

Thimphu

30

(U.K.)

Puebla

DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
Santiago San Juan

Port-auPrince

Chongqing

BANGLADESH
Dhaka

Ahmadabad Bhopal
Indore

LI
HA

Chengdu

Lhasa
BHUTAN

Patna

Karachi

ARABIA

Red Jiddah
Sea Mecca

Kanpur Lucknow

Hyderabad

Fukuoka
Nanjing
Nantong
Hefei
Shanghai
Wuhan
Hangzhou
Ningbo
East China
Nanchang
Changsha
Sea

Yokohama

saka
O

Cayman Is.

British
Virgin Islands
(U.K.)

Virgin
Islands
(U.S.)

YA

Tokyo

Nagoya
Hiroshima

Cancn

Johnston Atoll

(U.K.)

LA

Pusan

NC

Toluca
ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

Mrida

Mexico
City

U.S.

Turks and
Caicos Islands

CUBA

NEPAL
Kathmandu

gra
A
Jaipur

Xi'an

Mt. Everest

(highest point in Asia

and the world, 8850 m)

Yellow
Sea

Zhengzhou

ANA TRE

Guadalajara

Honolulu

Len

Medina

Aswan

IM

Ludhiana

PAKISTAN

BAHRAIN Persian
OMAN
Gulf
Manama
Abu
Doha
Riyadh
Dhabi
Gulf of Oman
QATAR UNITED ARAB
Muscat
EMIRATES

CHINA

PACIFIC
OCEAN

JAPAN

Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA

RI

San Luis
Potos

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Havana

New
Delhi

SAUDI

EGYPT

Western
Sahara

Zahedan

Lanzhou

MEXICO

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Milwaukee Deep
(deepest point of the
Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m)

z
Shira

Lahore
Faisalabad
Multan
Quetta

Dalian
Yantai

Zibo
Jinan
Qingdao

NORTH

Sea of
Japan

Gulf of Mexico

THE
Nassau
BAHAMAS

M I
D AT
L A

Matamoros

Miami

IRAN

KUWAIT
Kuwait

Dead Sea
(lowest point in
Asia, -408 m)

Kandahar

Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,

administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

Sapporo

AP

LIBYA

Laayoune

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

Esfahan
Ahvaz

Tianjin
Shijiazhuang
Taiyuan

Indian
claim

Vladivostok

NORTH KOREA
Pyongyang

Datong

DESERT

Line of
Actual
Control

Jilin

Beijing

TAKLA MAKAN

1972
Line of Control

Changchun

Shenyang

Baotou

Mashhad
Peshawar

DE

BI

T
SER

TO

Monterrey
Torren

NTA

Al Jizah

ALGERIA

IRAQ

GO

Kashi

Kabul

Harbin

rmqi

Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN

Herat

KURIL
ISLANDS

Tampa

Jerusalem

UZBEKISTAN

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar

S.

KYRGYZSTAN

TURKMENISTAN
Ashgabat
Tehran

Bishkek

Tashkent

Qom
Kermanshah

Damascus
Baghdad
Amman
Al Basrah
JORDAN

Cairo

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

(lowest point in
Europe, -28 m)

Mosul
Erbil

Aleppo

ISRAEL

Alexandria

Shymkent

Tabriz

SYRIA

Tel Aviv-Yafo
Banghazi

S.

MONGOLIA

Almaty

Caspian
Sea

AZERBAIJAN

Gaziantep

CYPRUS Beirut
LEBANON

(GR.)

Tripoli

MOROCCO

Orlando

Crete

Lake Balkhash

Aral
Sea

Baku

Yerevan

URKEY

Nicosia

Marrakech

Jacksonville

San
Antonio

Chihuahua

Valletta

S M
T

ARMENIA

Adana

Mediterranean Sea

Fs

GEORGIA

Ankara

S
ND
ISLA

HO
- S
P O PAN)
JA

New
Houston Orleans

Austin

Tunis
TUNISIA

Atyra

Aqta
(Aktau)

Tbilisi

(IT.)

MALTA

(SP.)

Casablanca

Athens

Sicily

Gora El'brus
(highest point in
Europe, 5633 m)
CAU
CAS
U

Black Sea

LT

AL
EUT
IAN

Ciudad
Juarez

Palermo

Constantine

Oran

Sea of
Azov

Bursa
.
T
Izmir
Konya

U.S.

PetropavlovskKamchatskiy

Chita

Sakhalin

KAZAKHSTAN
Astrakhan'

Istanbul

GREECE

(IT.)

Algiers

Gibraltar (U.K.)
Melilla

Rabat

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

Sardinia

BALEARIC
ISLANDS
(SP.)

Irkutsk

Astana

Volgograd
Rostov

Sea of
Okhotsk

Barnaul

Orenburg

Saratov

Lake
Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

(U.K.)

Sevilla
Mlaga
Ceuta (SP.)

Valencia

Ufa

Krasnoyarsk

(J

Bermuda

Dallas
El Paso

SPAIN

Naples

60

NA

San Diego
Tijuana Mexicali

30

OCEAN

Lisbon

AZORES
(PORT.)

ATLANTIC

Atlanta

Phoenix

UKRAINE

MONT.
Skopje
Tirana
MACEDONIA
ALB.

Rome

Yakutsk

Oklahoma City

AUSTRIA

CITY

Barcelona

Madrid

PORTUGAL

NORTH

STATES

Las Vegas
Los Angeles

(FR.)

Porto

OCEAN

LIECH.

Provideniya

Bering Sea
Tomsk

Qaraghandy
(Karaganda)

Kharkiv
Donets'k
MOLDOVA
Chisinau
Odesa

SLOVAKIA

Bratislava
Budapest

Vienna

Anadyr'

Death Valley
(lowest point in
North America, -86 m)

(FRANCE)

Halifax

CZECH REP.

Munich

Tyumen'
Yekaterinburg
Chelyabinsk

Kyiv

L'viv

RIDG

Sacramento
San Francisco

Kansas City

Paris

Krakw

Voronezh

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

UNITED
Denver

Guernsey(U.K.)
Jersey (U.K.)

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, D.C.
H
AC
L
A
P
Norfolk
AP
Nashville
Charlotte

Prague

Magadan

Izhevsk

Samara

Homyel

POLAND

GERMANY

R U S S I A

Kazan'

Ul'yanovsk

Minsk

Ldz

BELGIUM LUX. Frankfurt

Luxembourg

Nizhniy
Novgorod

Moscow

BELARUS

Warsaw
.

Cologne

FRANCE

Montral

Lake Ontario

Berlin

Amsterdam

NETH.
London Brussels
Lille

Celtic
Sea

I C

PACIFIC

Toronto

Milwaukee

KINGDOM

Gulf of
St. Lawrence

Qubec

Hamburg

Perm'

Yaroslavl'

LAT.

LITH.
Vilnius

RUSSIA

ST

NTAINS

Salt Lake City

Sea

TYEA

MOU

NORTH

Lake
Michigan

Minneapolis

(U.K.)

Leeds

Birmingham

Island of
Newfoundland

Lake
Huron
Ottawa

Isle of
Man

EST.

Baltic

Sea Riga

DENMARK
Copenhagen

NINE

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

Reykjavk

VA

Edmonton

White Sea

SWEDEN

Faroe
Islands

NORWAY

ICELAND

Vancouver

Portland

Chukchi

Cherskiy

Davis
Strait

Denmark
Strait

Hudson
Bay

CANADA
Calgary

Seattle

Murmansk

(Godthb)

Trshavn

Fort McMurray

CK

TIAN

RO

ALEU

Iqaluit

Churchill

DS
SLAN

Pevek
Noril'sk

RIF

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 (6633')

Fairbanks

Anchorage

Barents Sea

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Kara Sea

GRE
AT

U. S.

ARCTIC OCEAN

SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA

NOVAYA
ZEMLYA

Svalbard
(NORWAY)

Arctic Circle (6633')

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

Alert

ARCTIC OCEAN

Scale 1:35,000,000
Robinson Projection
standard parallels 38N and 38S

30

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 (6633')

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.
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