Physical Map of the World, June 2003

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
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Beaufort Sea
Barrow

Banks Island Victoria Island

ISLANDS
Baffin Bay
Baffin Island

Greenland Sea

Svalbard
(NORWAY)

NOVAYA ZEMLYA

Kara Sea

Laptev Sea

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 Great Slave Lake

Davis Strait

Denmark Strait

ICELAND Reykjavk Trshavn

(DEN.)

SWEDEN
Oslo
Gulf of Bothnia

A
Yakutsk 60

Gulf of Alaska

Rockall
(U.K.)

Tallinn EST.
Baltic LAT. Sea Riga LITH.

MO

60

Hudson Bay
Labrador Sea

Helsinki
St. Petersburg Nizhniy Novgorod

Stockholm

UN

Anchorage

FINLAND

Whitehorse

R U S S I A
Yekaterinburg Omsk
URA

Bering Sea
Novosibirsk

ROCK

CANADA
Edmonton

UNITED
Belfast

TIAN ALEU

ISLA

NDS

Lake Winnipeg

Dublin IRELAND Island of Newfoundland

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Isle of Man (U.K.)

North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen

Amsterdam
NETH. Hamburg

RUSSIA

Vilnius

Moscow Minsk

Lake Baikal
Irkutsk

KINGDOM
London

Vancouver

Celtic Sea

Brussels Paris
BELGIUM LUX.

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

Berlin GERMANY Prague Luxembourg CZECH REP.

LIECH.

POLAND Warsaw

BELARUS Kiev

Samara

Sea of Okhotsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Sakhalin

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
(U.S.)

Y
M O U NT A I N S
Seattle Minneapolis

Astana
A

Lake Superior 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 HUNGARY Bern L P Ljubljana ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA A CROATIA Belgrade Zagreb Milan SAN Bucharest Vienna
MONACO MARINO
VATICAN CITY BOS. & HERZ.

SLOVAKIA

UKRAINE

Kharkiv

LT

KAZAKHSTAN
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)
CAU + C AS

AY

Lake Balkhash

Ulaanbaatar

Khabarovsk

KURIL ISLANDS

Sea of Azov

Aral Sea
Caspian Sea
rmqi UZBEKISTAN
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)

MONGOLIA
G I OB DE SE RT
Sapporo Shenyang occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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

UNITED
Denver

Lake Ontario
Boston

Lake Erie
I CH LA
AN

NS AI NT U O New York M Philadelphia

ANDORRA

Marseille Barcelona
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)

Corsica
(FR.)

ITALY Sarajevo
Rome
ALB.

SER.& MONT.

Sofia

STATES
A

Washington, D.C.

A PP

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

I C
D

PORTUGAL Lisbon
AZORES (PORT.) Ceuta (SP.)

Madrid

Skopje

BULGARIA Istanbul

Black Sea
Ankara

GEORGIA

Tbilisi

US MT S.

Tirana

SPAIN

Sardinia
(IT.)

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN

TAKLA MAKAN DESERT
Indian claim

GREECE
Sicily

Izmir

TURKEY
Nicosia
Aleppo
LEB.

Yerevan

Baku

TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat
Mashhad

Tashkent

Beijing
Tianjin

NORTH KOREA Japan Pyongyang Seoul SOUTH KOREA

Pusan

Sea of

NORTH
JAPAN
Tokyo
Yokohama

Athens

Gibraltar(U.K.) Melilla
(SP.)

Algiers

Los Angeles Tijuana

30

Atlanta Dallas Bermuda

(U.K.)

MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)

Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA Tripoli

(IT.)

Casablanca

Rabat

Mediterranean Sea

Crete
(GR.)

CYPRUS

SYRIA
Damascus Amman

Beirut

IRAQ

Tehran

Kabul

CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)

ALGERIA
Laayoune (El Aain)

Kuwait

KUWAIT
Persian Gulf

M I D A T L A

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Honolulu

Havana

QATAR

MEXICO
Guadalajara

Johnston Atoll
(U.S.)

BELIZE Belmopan

Kingston

Navassa Island
(U.S.)

HAITI

Santo Puerto Domingo Rico

GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua

Clipperton Island
(FRANCE)

Caribbean Sea
(NETH.)

(U.S.) Montserrat
(U.K.)

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.) DOMINICA

CAPE VERDE

Tombouctou

NIGER

San Jos COSTA RICA Panama PANAMA

Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA) Isla de Malpelo

Maracaibo

Port-of-Spain

N'Djamena

DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden

Djibouti

Caracas

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

NIGERIA
Abuja

(YEMEN)

Socotra

Chennai (Madras)
LAKSHADWEEP
(INDIA)

CAMBODIA

Addis Ababa
VA

EY LL

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

Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA

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

ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)

PHILIPPINES
EN NE TR I P PI PHIL

Guam

Praia

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

Niamey

SUDAN

Bangalore

South China Sea

Hagta

RI

Dakar

SENEGAL

CHAD

Khartoum

ERITREA

Asmara

YEMEN
Sanaa

Bay of

Rangoon

Arabian Sea

Bengal

THAILAND
Bangkok

PARACEL ISLANDS

(U.S.)

VIETNAM

Manila

Saipan

ANA TRE

(U.S.)

ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)

Puebla

JAMAICA

Nouakchott

MALI

Mumbai (Bombay)

- Hyderabad

Hainan Dao

Sea

Northern Mariana Islands

NC

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

CUBA
Cayman Is.
(U.K.)

Mexico

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 + Prince ST. KITTS AND NEVIS

S
MAURITANIA

Red Sea

Jiddah

ARABIA
RU L B' A KH AL

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

I

Karachi

BANGLADESH
- Ahmadabad Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta)
R

Muscat

(J

Monterrey

Gulf of Mexico

AP

Miami

THE BAHAMAS Nassau

LIBYA

Western Sahara

EGYPT

SAUDI

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

Alexandria

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

ISRAEL

Baghdad

AFGHANISTAN

IRAN

Islamabad
Lahore

Line of Actual Control

CHINA
IM

Yellow Sea

Osaka

PACIFIC OCEAN
30

JORDAN

AL

(highest point in Asia and the world, 8850 m)

Mt. Everest

NA

Chengdu

Wuhan

Shanghai

M PO
) (JA

H - S

N PA

Manama Doha Riyadh

BAHRAIN

Kathmandu

Thimphu
Taipei

Midway Islands
(U.S.)

OT

Marcus Island
(JAPAN)

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

OMAN

INDIA

BURMA

Hanoi

Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.

S.A.R.

Taiwan

LAOS

Vientiane Tonkin

Gulf of

Philippine

Wake Island
(U.S.)

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Koror Palikir

MARSHALL ISLANDS
Majuro

CAMEROON Yaound

RIF T

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Bangui
UGANDA Kampala
GRE AT

ETHIOPIA SOMALIA
MALDIVES
Mogadishu

Colombo SRI LANKA

NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)

Bandar Seri Begawan

Medan

PALAU

CH

Malabo

Male

0 Jarvis Island
(U.S.)

Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)

COLOMBIA
Equator
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(ECUADOR)

PENEDOS DE SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

(BRAZIL)

Gulf of Guinea

Kuala Lumpur M A

BRUNEI

Celebes Sea

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

Equator

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tome

(EQUA. GUI.)

Annobon

Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO Brazzaville

ANGOLA
(Cabinda)

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

KENYA
Nairobi
+

Singapore SINGAPORE

Equator
Yaren NAURU District

Tarawa

Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0

RWANDA Kigali

Kinshasa

OF THE CONGO
Lake Tanganyika

Lake Victoria Bujumbura

BURUNDI Dodoma

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

K I R I B A T I

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

PE
RU

LES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

PERU
A
Lima
T

RIDG

BRAZIL
E
Salvador

(St. Helena)

Ascension

Luanda
Lubumbashi

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

SOLOMON ISLANDS
Honiara

Glorioso Islands
(FRANCE)

Christmas Island
(AUSTL.)

NC

Funafuti

-C
HI

ANGOLA
S
Lago Titicaca La Paz
IP ALT

COMOROS

Cook Islands
(N.Z.)

TY E A

SOCIETY ISLANDS
(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)

ST

Braslia

SOUTH ATLANTIC
Martin Vaz Trindade
(BRAZIL) (BRAZIL)

(St. Helena)

St. Helena

Namibe

ZAMBIA
Lusaka

Lilongwe
MALAWI

Tromelin Island
Juan de Nova Island (FR.) (FRANCE)

INDIAN OCEAN
N
NINE

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

(AUSTL.)

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

EAST TIMOR

TUVALU
Wallis and Futuna

Tokelau (N.Z.)

LE

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

Timor Sea
Gulf of Carpentaria

Coral Sea
VANUATU
Coral Sea Islands
(AUSTL.)

SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago

American Samoa Niue (N.Z.)
(U.S.)

N
D
N

R
E
C

Barrier

Tropic of Capricorn
LES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)

(2327')
Isla San Felx (CHILE)

PARAGUAY
Asuncin

Rio de Janeiro So Paulo

Walvis Bay

Windhoek
DESER

KALAHARI DESERT

(FRANCE)

Reunion
(FRANCE)

Europa Island
(FRANCE)

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Alice Springs

Noumea

Gaborone Pretoria
Johannesburg

Adamstown

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

30

Prto Alegre

(AUSTL.)

(U.K.)

LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru

GREAT VICTORIA DESERT

Brisbane

KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)

E
C

Isla Sala y Gmez (CHILE)

Maputo

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

ARCHIPILAGO JUAN FERNNDEZ (CHILE)

Santiago

Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA

Montevideo

Cape Town (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Canberra
le Amsterdam

Sydney Auckland

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena) Gough Island

(St. Helena)

le Saint-Paul

Great Australian Bight

Melbourne

Mount Kosciuszko (highest point in Australia, 2229m) +

Tasman Sea
Tasmania

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
Christchurch CHATHAM ISLANDS (N.Z.)

PATAGONIA

+ Peninsula Valds (lowest point in South America, -40 m)

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

(FRANCE)

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)

June 2003
* Twenty

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

of 27 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.

90

Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

URUGUAY

(AUSTL.)

CHILE

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

AFRICA

30

Perth

Lord Howe Island

803005AI (R00349) 7-03

TO NG A

(FRANCE)

BOTSWANA

MADAGASCAR

TONGA

TR

F r e n c h

P o l y n e s i

SOUTH PACIFIC a OCEAN

FIJI
Suva Nuku'alofa

OCEAN

NAMIBIA

Bassas da India

SaintDenis

New Caledonia (FRANCE)

EN CH

BOLIVIA
Belo Horizonte

ZIMBABWE

Harare

MOZAMBIQUE
Mozambique Channel

Antananarivo

Port Louis MAURITIUS

Re ef

Port-Vila

NA

OC

AMA ATA C

O L AN

IB

EA

DESERT

R
ID

M I D - A T L A N T I C

ANDE

D G R I
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