Physical Map of the World, April 2007 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
Banks Island
Barents Sea Norwegian Sea
Jan Mayen (NORWAY)
Chukchi Sea
Montevideo
ARGENTINA
O
E
H
S
I
A
(FRANCE)
T
R
E
Christmas Island
NC
(AUSTL.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
OCEAN
(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
Alice Springs
G
Maputo
Arafura Sea
EAST TIMOR
H
(AUSTL.)
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Dili
Gough Island
PATAGONIA
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Banda Sea
Surabaya
Bandung
LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru
AFRICA
N
Java Sea
K I R I B A T I
TO NG AT RE NC H
Reunion (FRANCE)
Europa Island
Pretoria
(U.K.)
Punta Arenas
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
D
Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0
Bismarck Sea
Barrier
Buenos Aires
Tarawa
Equator
ID
URUGUAY
MADAGASCAR
Port Louis MAURITIUS
Gaborone Johannesburg
Celebes Sea
A
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
MI D-A TLA NTIC
Easter Island (CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
Rio de Janeiro
Antananarivo
Mozambique Channel Bassas da India
(FRANCE)
EA
Isla San Felíx (CHILE)
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)
Windhoek
Tromelin Island
OC
Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)
PARAGUAY
OCEAN
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
MOZAMBIQUE
ZIMBABWE NAMIBIA
DESER
Adamstown
(BRAZIL)
DESERT
ÎLES TUBUAI (Fr. Poly.)
Trindade
(BRAZIL)
IB
(23°27')
Martin Vaz
(FRANCE)
Juan de Nova Island (FR.)
Harare
M
Tropic of Capricorn
Belo Horizonte
AMA
(FRANCE)
Lusaka
ATLANTIC
BOLIVIA
Glorioso Islands
Mayotte
MALAWI
Namibe
St. Helena (St. Helena)
NA
SOUTH PACIFIC a OCEAN
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasília
I
PALAU
t Grea
Lago Titicaca La Paz
S
ATAC
P o l y n e s i
E
H
ANO IPL ALT
F r e n c h
C
Diego Garcia
COMOROS Lilongwe
N Jakarta
A
D
(Fr. Poly.)
Papeete
EN
SOCIETY ISLANDS
Niue (N.Z.)
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)
Moroni
ANGOLA
N
TR
(N.Z.)
Lake Nyasa
Lubumbashi
Salvador
S
Majuro
Palikir
V
A
Cook Islands
TANZANIA
(U.K.)
Dar es Salaam
SEYCHELLES
E
Lima
Dodoma
I
British Indian Ocean Territory
MID - INDIAN
L HI - C
BRAZIL
Victoria
Luanda
(St. Helena)
BRUNEI
Melekeok
Yaren NAURU District
Mt. Kilimanjaro (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
JA
RU
Ascension
PERU
Medan
Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE
MARSHALL ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
Nairobi
BURUNDI
Lake Tanganyika
(Cabinda)
PE
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
TAINS
OF THE CONGO
Kinshasa
ANGOLA
K I R I B A T I
UN
REPUBLIC
Fortaleza
Male
Mogadishu
Lake Victoria Bujumbura
Brazzaville
Bandar Seri Begawan
KENYA
RWANDA Kigali
(EQUA. GUI.)
(BRAZIL)
SRI LANKA
MALDIVES
DEMOCRATIC
SPRATLY ISLANDS
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
(U.S.) Challenger Deep (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
H
Annobon
Ho Chi Minh City
Guam
C
Manaus
UGANDA Kampala
Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO
São Tome
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Belém
Guayaquil
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
SOMALIA
Colombo
PHILIPPINES
N
(ECUADOR)
ECUADOR
Yaoundé
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
Saipan
Hagåtña
E
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(U.S.)
Bangui
Gulf of Guinea
Equator
Laccadive Sea
ETHIOPIA
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
CAMBODIA
Andaman Sea
(INDIA)
EY LL
South China Sea
R
Jarvis Island
CAMEROON
(YEMEN)
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
Chennai LAKSHADWEEP
Addis Ababa
Abuja
Socotra
Djibouti
Bangalore
Bangkok
T
(BRAZIL)
Quito
NIGERIA
DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
Bengal
Arabian Sea
(U.S.)
Manila
VIETNAM
(U.S.)
C
Equator
PENEDOS DE SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
Lac 'Assal (lowest point in Africa, -155 m)
N'Djamena
Malabo
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
COLOMBIA
SUDAN
Sanaa
Sea PARACEL ISLANDS
THAILAND
Wake Island
E
Cali
Bogotá
Niamey
Asmara
Rangoon
Northern Mariana Islands
D
S D N
Isla de Malpelo
A
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
VENEZUELA
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne
CHAD
Philippine
Hainan Dao
CH TREN
Medellín
Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)
SENEGAL
Khartoum
Bay of
YEMEN
ERITREA
Gulf of
Vientiane Tonkin
E PPIN
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Caracas
NIGER
S.A.R.
LAOS
Nay Pyi Taw
- Hyderabad
Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.
Hanoi
BURMA
INDIA
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
OMAN
I PHIL
(FRANCE)
Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA
I
AL
KH
Mumbai
Tombouctou
Dakar
(U.K.)
L B' A RU
MAURITANIA
CAPE VERDE
DOMINICA
ARABIA
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Taiwan
Mandalay
A
Aruba (NETH.)
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.) Montserrat
Jiddah
(JAPAN)
M
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
A
Y
(U.S.)
Marcus Island
R
Kingston
Nouakchott
R
Kolkata Dhaka
- Ahmadabad
K
E
JAMAICA
BELIZE Belmopan
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
A
R
Muscat
U
Midway Islands
K
Puebla
H
Taipei
BANGLADESH
¯ Karachi
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Okinawa
NC
Prince
(U.K.)
E
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Cayman Is.
A
Thimphu
30
A TRE
Mexico
S
Kathmandu
East China Sea
Chongqing
BHUTAN
IAN
I C T
N
M I D AT L A
Guadalajara
QATAR
AS
Kanpur
OMAN
Abu Dhabi
Manama Doha Riyadh
Red Sea
PAKISTAN
Persian Gulf
AY
NEPAL
Shanghai
Wuhan
O
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
EGYPT
BAHRAIN
Chengdu
(highest point in Asia and the world, 8850 m)
Yokohama
OT
CUBA
SAUDI
Pusan
Mt. Everest
AL
Tokyo Osaka
N) PA
MEXICO
Honolulu
ALGERIA
Western Sahara
IM
New Delhi
KUWAIT
LIBYA
H
Lahore
Kuwait
Laayoune (El Aaiún)
CHINA
Line of Actual Control
¯ Islamabad
IRAN
Yellow Sea
PACIFIC OCEAN
JAPAN
Seoul SOUTH KOREA
H - S
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
Baghdad
Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
Indian claim
JORDAN
Cairo
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
AFGHANISTAN
Tianjin
(JA
Havana
Jerusalem
Amman
IRAQ
NORTH KOREA Japan Pyongyang
PO
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
THE BAHAMAS Nassau
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Damascus
NORTH
Sea of
Beijing
M
Gulf of Mexico
Monterrey
Beirut
MOROCCO
Miami
LEB.
CYPRUS
(GR.)
Tripoli
Houston
30
Rabat
Shenyang
AR
Casablanca
Kabul
occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sapporo
DESERT
1972 Line of Control
Mashhad
Tehran
SYRIA
RT
TAKLA MAKAN
Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
Ashgabat
Aleppo
Nicosia
Mediterranean Sea
(SP.)
MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
TURKMENISTAN
¯
Crete
Tashkent
SE
M
D
E
TURKEY
G
Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
DE
I OB
-
I
G
UZBEKISTAN
Baku
Athens
Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA
Melilla
Ürümqi
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)
Yerevan
(IT.)
Algiers
Gibraltar(U.K.)
·Izmir
S.
Caspian Sea
KURIL ISLANDS
MONGOLIA
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
Ankara
GREECE
(IT.)
Sicily Ceuta (SP.)
GEORGIA
US MT
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar .
Aral Sea
Tbilisi
MACEDONIA
Tirana
Sardinia
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
CAU C AS
S
NA
OCEAN
(U.K.)
SPAIN
ALB.
T
-
Bermuda
Tijuana
Barcelona
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)
Sea of Azov
BULGARIA Skopje Istanbul
Podgorica
Rome
M
Lake Balkhash
Black Sea
Sofia
AY
IS L A N D S AN )
Dallas
VATICAN CITY
(FR.)
AZORES (PORT.)
ATLANTIC
KAZAKHSTAN
SER. MONT.
LT
U
NORTH
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Madrid
ITALY Sarajevo
Corsica
ANDORRA
Washington, D.C.
A
Kharkiv
AP
N
SLOVAKIA
(U.S.)
Sakhalin
E
A HI AC
MARINO
MONACO
Marseille
PORTUGAL Lisbon
Astana
UKRAINE
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Irkutsk
Kyiv
BOS. & HER.
Sea of Okhotsk
Y
(FRANCE)
Lake Ontario
Samara
Vienna
LIECH.
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
ST
Denver
L PA AP
Montréal
Boston NS AI T N OU New York M Philadelphia
Lake Erie
STATES
Paris
Moscow
Prague
CZECH REP.
60
NINE
Detroit Chicago
Luxembourg
BELGIUM LUX.
Yakutsk
Yekaterinburg
Minsk
VA
Death Valley (lowest point in North America, -86 m)
Toronto
Berlin GERMANY
Brussels
Guernsey (U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Michigan
UNITED
Celtic Sea
NETH.
A
R U S S I A
Nizhniy Novgorod
RIF T
San Francisco
Minneapolis
London
POLAND Warsaw
Hamburg
Amsterdam
KINGDOM
I
(J
Island of Newfoundland
Isle of Man (U.K.)
R
RIDG
Dublin IRELAND
Lake Winnipeg
Vilnius
RUSSIA
E
TY E A
Edmonton
M O U NT A I N S
PACIFIC
Belfast
B
L
Labrador Sea
Baltic LAT. Sea Riga LITH.
North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen
UNITED
Saint Petersburg
Tallinn EST.
I
URA
Stockholm
CANADA
Lake Huron Ottawa
Helsinki
Rockall (U.K.)
Lake Superior
FINLAND
Gulf of Bothnia
(DEN.)
Tórshavn
Hudson Bay
Y
NORTH
Faroe Islands
Reykjavík
S
White Sea
SWEDEN
Oslo
Vancouver Seattle
Nuuk (Godthåb)
NORWAY
ICELAND
Denmark Strait
MO
Davis Strait
GRE AT
ROCK
DS
Wrangel Island
East Siberian Sea
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Gulf of Alaska
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Laptev Sea
(DENMARK)
Baffin Island
60
Johnston Atoll
180
ARCTIC OCEAN
Kara Sea
NOVAYA ZEMLYA
(NORWAY)
Greenland
Baffin Bay
Great Slave Lake
Whitehorse
(U.S.)
Svalbard
150
120
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
Longyearbyen
Great Bear Lake
Anchorage
OCEAN
90
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Mt. McKinley (highest point in North America, 6194 m)
LAN N IS
60
FRANZ JOSEF LAND
Greenland Sea
Victoria Island
U. S.
TIA ALEU
Ellesmere Island
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
A n t a r c t i c a*
Ronne Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf 90
60
30
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
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.
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
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