Physical Map of the World, April 2007

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 38N and 38S
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 (6633') 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 (6633')

Nuuk (Godthb)
TAINS

Great Bear Lake

Davis Strait

Denmark Strait

ICELAND Reykjavk Trshavn

(DEN.)

SWEDEN
Gulf of Bothnia

A
Yakutsk 60

FINLAND
Helsinki
Tallinn EST.
Saint 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.

Berlin GERMANY
Luxembourg
LIECH.

POLAND Warsaw Prague

SLOVAKIA

BELARUS Kyiv

Samara

Sea of Okhotsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Sakhalin

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
(U.S.)

Y
Vancouver Seattle

Astana
A

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

CZECH REP.

UKRAINE

Kharkiv

LT

Lake Superior
Minneapolis

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Lake Michigan
Detroit Chicago

Lake Huron Ottawa

Toronto

Montral

St. Pierre and Miquelon

(FRANCE)

Bay of Biscay

Bratislava MOLDOVA SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chi sinau FRANCE S SLOVENIA HUNGARY Bern L P ROMANIA Odesa A Ljubljana Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest Milan SAN Vienna
MONACO MARINO
BOS. & HER.

KAZAKHSTAN
Lake Balkhash
Sea of Azov
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)

AY

Ulaanbaatar
.

Khabarovsk KURIL ISLANDS

M O U NT A I N S

Aral Sea
S.

MONGOLIA
rmqi

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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

Lake Ontario

SER. MONT.

UNITED
Denver

Lake Erie
A HI AC

Boston S IN TA N OU New York M Philadelphia

N

Marseille
ANDORRA

Corsica
(FR.)

ITALY Sarajevo
VATICAN CITY

Podgorica
ALB.

STATES
Dallas

Washington, D.C.

L PA AP

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

I C
T

PORTUGAL Lisbon
AZORES (PORT.)

Madrid

Barcelona
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)

Rome

BULGARIA Skopje Istanbul

MACEDONIA

Sofia

Black Sea
Ankara
Izmir

CAU C AS

GEORGIA

US MT

Caspian Sea

Tbilisi Yerevan

(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)

UZBEKISTAN

Tirana

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
TAKLA MAKAN

I OB

DE

SE

RT
Sapporo Shenyang

occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

SPAIN

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.)

I
R

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

Alexandria

ISRAEL

CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)

ALGERIA
Laayoune (El Aain)

Kuwait

KUWAIT
Persian Gulf

AP

(J

M I D AT L A

Monterrey

Gulf of Mexico
Havana

Miami

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

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

EGYPT
Red Sea

SAUDI

BAHRAIN

Kathmandu

Thimphu

Manama Doha Riyadh

QATAR

Midway Islands
(U.S.)

OT

MEXICO
CUBA
Guadalajara

(U.S.) 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 Jos 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

Chennai
LAKSHADWEEP

CAMBODIA

Guam

Djibouti

(YEMEN)

Socotra

Caracas

NIGERIA
Abuja

Addis Ababa
VA

EY LL

(INDIA)

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)

Aruba

Kingman Reef (U.S.) Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

Medelln

VENEZUELA

Cali

Bogot

Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne

Banjul BURKINA Bamako FASO THE GAMBIA Ouagadougou Bissau GUINEA GUINEA-BISSAU BENIN Conakry CTE TOGO Freetown D'IVOIRE GHANA SIERRA Yamoussoukro LEONE Lagos Lom 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

Hagta

IAN

CAPE VERDE

Tombouctou

NIGER

CHAD

Khartoum

ERITREA

YEMEN

Bay of

Rangoon

THAILAND

PARACEL ISLANDS

(U.S.)

Saipan

A TRE

ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)

Puebla

JAMAICA

ST. KITTS AND NEVIS

Nouakchott

MALI

Mumbai

- Hyderabad

Sea

Northern Mariana Islands

NC

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

S
MAURITANIA

Jiddah

ARABIA
L B' A RU KH AL I

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Karachi

BANGLADESH
R

Muscat

Marcus Island
(JAPAN)

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

- Ahmadabad

Kolkata Dhaka

Mandalay

Taiwan

OMAN

Mexico

(U.K.)

Prince

Cayman Is.

INDIA

BURMA
Nay Pyi Taw

Hanoi

Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.

S.A.R.

LAOS

Vientiane Tonkin

Gulf of

Philippine

Wake Island
(U.S.)

Hainan Dao

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Melekeok Palikir

MARSHALL ISLANDS
Majuro

E PPIN

RIF T

CAMEROON Yaound

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Bangui
UGANDA Kampala
GRE AT

ETHIOPIA SOMALIA

Colombo SRI LANKA

NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)

CH TREN

Bandar Seri Begawan

Medan

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 SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

(BRAZIL)

Gulf of Guinea

Quito ECUADOR
Guayaquil Manaus Fortaleza Belm ARQUIPLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
(BRAZIL)

Equator

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tome
Annobon
(EQUA. GUI.)

Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO Brazzaville

ANGOLA
(Cabinda)

KENYA

Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE

BRUNEI

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
V
Diego Garcia

N
Jakarta
Bandung

D
Java Sea
Surabaya

E
Dili

S
Banda Sea

I
Arafura Sea

Bismarck Sea

K I R I B A T I

TANZANIA
Lake Nyasa

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Port Moresby
t Grea

LES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

Ascension

PERU
A
N
Lima
TR

RIDG

BRAZIL
E
S
Salvador

(St. Helena)

Luanda
Lubumbashi

SEYCHELLES
MID - INDIAN
Moroni
Mayotte
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)

SOLOMON ISLANDS
Honiara

PE
RU

Funafuti

L HI - C

Christmas Island
(AUSTL.)

NC

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

EAST TIMOR

TUVALU

Tokelau (N.Z.)

Glorioso Islands
(FRANCE)

ANGOLA
Lago Titicaca La Paz

COMOROS

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

(AUSTL.)

Cook Islands
(N.Z.)

TY E A

(Fr. Poly.)

(FRANCE) Tropic of Capricorn

LES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)

Trindade
(BRAZIL)

(2327')
Isla San Felx (CHILE)

PARAGUAY
Asuncin

Rio de Janeiro So Paulo

Windhoek
Walvis Bay
DESER

BOTSWANA
KALAHARI DESERT

Bassas da India
(FRANCE)

NINE

F r e n c h

P o l y n e s i

Martin Vaz
(BRAZIL)

OCEAN

NAMIBIA

MADAGASCAR

SaintDenis
Reunion
(FRANCE)

(AUSTL.)

New Caledonia (FRANCE)

Nuku'alofa

TONGA

Europa Island
(FRANCE)

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Alice Springs

Noumea

Gaborone Pretoria
Johannesburg

Adamstown

Pitcairn Islands (U.K.) Easter Island (CHILE)

Maputo

30

Prto Alegre

(AUSTL.)

(U.K.)

LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru

Brisbane

GREAT VICTORIA DESERT

KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)

E
C

Isla Sala y Gmez (CHILE)

Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)

St. Helena

Mbabane SWAZILAND
Durban

A U S T R A L I A
Lake Eyre (lowest point in Australia, -15 m)

Norfolk Island

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

30

CHILE
ARCHIPILAGO JUAN FERNNDEZ (CHILE)

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

AFRICA
Cape Town

Santiago

Buenos Aires Montevideo

Canberra
le Amsterdam
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Sydney Auckland

ARGENTINA

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena) Gough Island

(St. Helena)

le 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 Carbn (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)

LES CROZET (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) LES 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 (6633')
Amery Ice Shelf

Antarctic Circle (6633')

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 2007
*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.

URUGUAY

(AUSTL.)

Perth

Lord Howe Island

803307AI (R00349) 4-07

TO NG AT RE NC H

Niue (N.Z.)

SOCIETY ISLANDS

Papeete

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)

(St. Helena)

Lusaka Harare

SOUTH PACIFIC a OCEAN

BOLIVIA
ANO IPL ALT

ATLANTIC
Belo Horizonte
NA
M IB

Juan de Nova Island (FR.)

(FRANCE)

ST

Braslia

SOUTH

ZAMBIA
St. Helena
Namibe

Lilongwe
MALAWI

Tromelin Island

INDIAN OCEAN
EA
N

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

Timor Sea
Gulf of Carpentaria

Coral Sea
VANUATU
Re ef

Wallis and Futuna

SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago

American Samoa
(U.S.)

EN

Barrier

FIJI
Suva

MOZAMBIQUE
Mozambique Channel

Antananarivo Port Louis MAURITIUS

ZIMBABWE

Coral Sea Islands

Port-Vila

ATAC

OC

AMA
DESERT

ID

MI D-A TLA NTIC

ANDE

S
D RI

G
E