Physical Map of the World, August 1999

Independent state

AUSTRALIA
Bermuda

Dependency or area of special sovereignty

Island / island group

150

Capital

90

120

30

60

ARCTIC OCEAN

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

Ellesmere
Island

Barrow

Victoria
Island

(NORWAY)

Kingston

T
Neth. Antilles

TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO

Caracas

S
Medelln

VENEZUELA

Isla del Coco

(COSTA RICA)
Isla de
Malpelo

Cali

Bogot

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

Port-of-Spain

Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
(FRANCE)
SURINAME Cayenne

Equator
GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

(U.S.)

(ECUADOR)

SENEGAL

(BRAZIL)

ECUADOR

'
Belem

Guayaquil

SUDAN
NIGERIA

CAMEROON

Malabo

REPUBLIC

Port
Louis
MAURITIUS

Reunion
(FRANCE)

(FRANCE)

Maputo

Mbabane
SWAZILAND

Bismarck Sea

PAPUA
NEW GUINEA

Banda Sea

Christmas Island

NC

(AUSTL.)

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

SOLOMON
ISLANDS

Surabaya

Bandung

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

Arafura
Sea

Timor
Sea
Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

Gulf of
Carpentaria

(AUSTL.)

Coral Sea
Islands

Port-Vila

Niue
(N.Z.)

Suva
Nuku'alofa

TONGA

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

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

SOUTH
PACIFIC

Norfolk
Island

Brisbane

(AUSTL.)

Durban
Perth

KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

OCEAN

Lord Howe
Island

le Saint-Paul

Sydney

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

Great Australian
Bight

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

(U.S.)

(St. Helena)

30

NEW
ZEALAND

Tasman Sea

Gough Island

Auckland

Melbourne

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Tasmania

Wellington

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Christchurch

(FRANCE)

CHATHAM ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)

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

SNARES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

LES KERGUELEN
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Heard Island and
McDonald Islands
(AUSTL.)

Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)

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Drake
Passage

American
Samoa

FIJI

VANUATU

New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)

GREAT VICTORIA
DESERT

Stanley

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SAMOA
Apia
Mata-Utu
(FRANCE)
Pago Pago

(AUSTL.)

le Amsterdam

South Georgia and the

South Sandwich Islands
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)

Tokelau
(N.Z.)

Wallis and
Futuna

Coral
Sea
Re
ef

Canberra

Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)

Scotia Sea

Funafuti

TUVALU

Honiara

Port
Moresby

PATAGONIA

Cape
Town

Punta Arenas

60

O
Java Sea

Howland Island (U.S.)

Baker Island (U.S.)
0

K I R I B A T I

(AUSTL.)

D G
R I

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

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)

PALAU

Alice Springs

Montevideo

ARGENTINA

AFRICA

Majuro

Palikir

Tarawa

LESOTHO
SOUTH Maseru

(U.K.)

Koror

Equator

ID

Buenos Aires

MADAGASCAR

SaintDenis

Gaborone
Johannesburg

OCEAN

Antananarivo

Europa Island

Pretoria

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Celebes Sea

URUGUAY

(FRANCE)

INDIAN

Santiago

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

ANDE

ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)

Crdoba

Bassas
da India

(FRANCE)

EA

30

St. Helena

Tromelin Island

Mozambique
Channel

KALAHARI
DESERT

Prto
Alegre

CHILE

DESER

Isla San Ambrosio

(CHILE)

So Paulo

Asuncin

(FRANCE)

Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)

BOTSWANA

Walvis Bay

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

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)

Easter Island
(CHILE)

NAMIBIA
Windhoek

Rio de Janeiro

Glorioso Islands

(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)

MOZAMBIQUE

N
Jakarta

OC

DESERT

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)

PARAGUAY

OCEAN

AMA

(BRAZIL)

MALAWI

ZIMBABWE

MI

Trindade

(BRAZIL)

Diego
Garcia

Mayotte

Lusaka

NA

O
L AN

ATA C

IP
ALT

Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)

Martin Vaz

(U.S.)
+
Challenger Deep
(world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)

Barrier

Adamstown

Moroni

Lilongwe

Harare

(U.S.)

t
Grea

(2327')

LES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)

Lake
Nyasa

Namibe

St. Helena
(St. Helena)

ATLANTIC
Belo
Horizonte

(U.K.)

Dar es Salaam

COMOROS

ZAMBIA

SOUTH

Braslia

BOLIVIA

(FRANCE)
Tropic of Capricorn

Lago
Titicaca
La Paz

British Indian
Ocean Territory

P o l y n e s i

Victoria

SEYCHELLES

F r e n c h

SOUTH PACIFIC
a
OCEAN

ANGOLA
S

BRUNEI

Wake Atoll

Yaren NAURU
District

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

TANZANIA

Lubumbashi

Salvador

Medan

Mogadishu

BURUNDI

Lake
Tanganyika

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A Y
Singapore
SINGAPORE

(Agana)
Guam

PHILIPPINES

Bandar Seri
Begawan

LE

(Fr. Poly.)

OF THE CONGO

Saipan
Hagta

Ho Chi Minh City

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

SRI
LANKA

Male

MID-INDIAN

HI

SOCIETY
ISLANDS

Papeete

SOMALIA

Colombo

(U.S.)

Manila

-C

Cook Islands
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU
(Fr. Poly.)

BRAZIL

Laccadive
Sea

Luanda

(St. Helena)

Andaman
Sea

(INDIA)

EY
LL
VA

Phnom Penh
Gulf of
Thailand

Northern
Mariana
Islands

Sea

South China
Sea

CAMBODIA

JA

RU

Ascension

(YEMEN)

Philippine

VIETNAM

Bangkok
ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Chennai
(Madras)

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Nairobi

Lake
Victoria
Bujumbura

Brazzaville
Kinshasa

Socotra

Djibouti

Bangalore

(JAPAN)

PARACEL
ISLANDS

THAILAND

Bengal

Arabian
Sea

(U.S.)

Marcus Island

Hainan
Dao

Rangoon

KENYA

RWANDA Kigali

(Cabinda)

PERU

DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden

Gulf of
Tonkin

Vientiane

MALDIVES

DEMOCRATIC

(EQUA. GUI.)

(BRAZIL)

ANGOLA

Lima
(N.Z.)

UGANDA
Kampala

Libreville REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO

Annobon

PE

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

Bangui

Yaound

So Tome

YEMEN

(PORT.)

LAOS

Bay of

Midway
Islands

Hong Kong
Luzon Strait
Macau S.A.R.

Hanoi

INDIA
- Hyderabad

30

Taiwan

BURMA

OMAN

ETHIOPIA

CENTRAL
AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Dhaka

Calcutta

LAKSHADWEEP

Addis
Ababa

Abuja

Fortaleza

K I R I B A T I

- Ahmadabad

Sanaa

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

N'Djamena

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

Equator

ERITREA

Asmara

Gulf of Guinea

Arquiplago de
Fernando de Noronha

Manaus

Khartoum

CHAD

Niamey

Penedos de
So Pedro e So Paulo

Quito

Jarvis
Island

NIGER

Okinawa

Taipei

Karachi

Muscat

MALI

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

COLOMBIA

ALI

KH

Thimphu

BANGLADESH

Mumbai
(Bombay)

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

BARBADOS

GRENADA

(NETH.)

Maracaibo

Praia

Kathmandu

East China
Sea

Chongqing

BHUTAN

Kanpur

RU

Tombouctou

Dakar

Martinique (FR.)
ST. LUCIA

ST. VINCENT AND

THE GRENADINES

Aruba
(NETH.)

COSTA RICA Panama

PANAMA

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

(U.K.)

L
B' A

MAURITANIA

CAPE VERDE

DOMINICA

ARABIA

AS

H
NC
E TR E
IPPIN
PHIL

(FRANCE)

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

Guadeloupe (FR.)

(U.S.)
Montserrat

Caribbean Sea

San Jos

Clipperton Island

(U.S.)

GUATEMALA HONDURAS
Tegucigalpa
Guatemala
San Salvador
NICARAGUA
EL SALVADOR
Managua

(U.S.)

Navassa
Island

Santo Puerto
Domingo Rico

HAITI

Jiddah

AY

Shanghai

Wuhan

RE
NC
H

JAMAICA

BELIZE
Belmopan

D E S E R T

UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES

Chengdu

(highest point in Asia

and the world, 8848 m)

NEPAL

OMAN

Doha
Abu Dhabi

QATAR

S A H A R A
Nouakchott

Manama
Riyadh

Red
Sea

PAKISTAN

Persian
Gulf

Mt. Everest

AL

Yokohama

GA
T

Puebla

BAHRAIN

Pusan

TO
N

I C
(U.K.)

ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

Cayman Is.

SAUDI

EGYPT

Western
Sahara

IM

New
Delhi

KUWAIT

Kuwait

LIBYA

Lahore

JORDAN

ALGERIA
Laayoune
(El Aain)

M I
D A T
L A

Mexico

IRAN

Chinese line
of control

Guadalajara

Baghdad

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

Cairo

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

Tokyo
Osaka

MOROCCO

Amman

IRAQ

Yellow
Sea

CHINA

Kabul

PACIFIC
OCEAN

JAPAN

Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA

HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS

ISRAEL

Alexandria

Damascus

Indian
claim

N
PA

CUBA

Beirut

Tianjin

T
HO
- 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
+
Prince
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS

MEXICO

Honolulu

TAINS

Tripoli

LEB.

CYPRUS

(GR.)

NORTH KOREA Japan

P'yongyang

(JA

Havana

Rabat

NORTH

Sea of

Beijing

PO

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Casablanca

Shenyang

DESERT

Mashhad

Tehran

SYRIA

occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,

administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

Sapporo

TAKLA MAKAN

Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN

Ashgabat

Aleppo

Nicosia
Crete

Mediterranean Sea

(SP.)

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

TURKMENISTAN

Tunis MALTA
Valletta
TUNISIA

Tashkent

RT

TURKEY

Athens

Bishkek
KYRGYZSTAN

SE

Baku

DE

I
OB

Miami

Gulf of Mexico

Monterrey

THE
BAHAMAS
Nassau

Algiers

Gibraltar(U.K.)

Yerevan

(IT.)

Melilla

UZBEKISTAN

(lowest point in
Europe, -28 m)
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Ankara

Izmir

rmqi

T'bilisi

Istanbul

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV

REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

GREECE

(IT.)

Sicily
Ceuta (SP.)

Houston

Sardinia

BALEARIC
ISLANDS
(SP.)

Caspian
Sea

NA

OCEAN

(U.K.)

SPAIN

BULGARIA

Skopje

MONGOLIA

Aral
Sea

CAU
+ C A SU
S M
GEORGIA
TS.

Black Sea

Sofia

KURIL
ISLANDS

CH

Bermuda

Tijuana

(FR.)

Barcelona

AZORES
(PORT.)

ATLANTIC

Dallas

30

PORTUGAL
Lisbon

NORTH

Atlanta

Los Angeles

Corsica

ANDORRA

Madrid

Serbia

ITALY Sarajevo Mont.

Podgorica
VATICAN
CITY
ALB.
Rome
Tirana

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar
.

IANA TREN

Marseille

Boston

Washington, D.C.

MARINO

MONACO

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

Sea of
Azov

TS

AR

(FRANCE)

Lake Ontario

BOS. & HERZ.

Lake Balkhash

IA

Bay of
Biscay

St. Pierre
and Miquelon

AY

A
PP

CH
LA

KAZAKHSTAN

Bratislava
MOLDOVA
SWITZ.
AUSTRIA
Budapest
Chisinau

FRANCE
S
Bern L P Ljubljana HUNGARY
ROMANIA
Odesa
SLOVENIA
A
CROATIA Belgrade
Zagreb
Milan SAN
Bucharest
Vienna

LIECH.

LT

Denver

STATES

Montral

S
IN
TA
N
OU
New York
M
Philadelphia

Lake Erie

Kharkiv

IS
L A N
D S
AN
)

Chicago

Kiev
SLOVAKIA

(U.S.)

Sakhalin

Detroit

Paris

Astana

UKRAINE

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Irkutsk

AP

UNITED

Toronto

BELGIUM
LUX.

Samara

BELARUS

Sea of
Okhotsk

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

Lake
Michigan

Brussels

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

Lake
Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Minsk

San Francisco

Lake
Huron
Ottawa

Berlin
GERMANY
Prague
Luxembourg CZECH REP.

Moscow

Yekaterinburg

PACIFIC

M O U NT A I N S

NORTH

Celtic
Sea

Gulf of
St. Lawrence

Lake
Superior
Minneapolis

London

NETH.

POLAND
Warsaw

Hamburg

Amsterdam

KINGDOM

Bering Sea

Nizhniy
Novgorod

ST

Island of
Newfoundland

Isle of
Man (U.K.)

60

Dublin
IRELAND

Lake
Winnipeg

Vilnius

RUSSIA

A
Yakutsk

NINE

Edmonton

Vancouver
Seattle

Belfast

(J

Labrador
Sea

Baltic Riga LAT.

Sea
LITH.

North
DENMARK
Sea Copenhagen

RIDG

(U.K.)

CANADA

St. Petersburg

Tallinn EST.

Rockall

TY E A

Stockholm

Helsinki

R U S S I A

UN

Oslo

UNITED

FINLAND

Gulf
of
Bothnia

(DEN.)

ROCK

NDS

SWEDEN

Faroe
Islands

Trshavn

White Sea

URA

Gulf of Alaska

LA
N IS

ICELAND
Reykjavk

Hudson
Bay

60

TIA
ALEU

Denmark
Strait

Nuuk (Godthb)

NORWAY

MO

Davis
Strait

Great
Slave Lake

Whitehorse

Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)

Sea

RI F
T

Anchorage

Johnston Atoll

Chukchi

Arctic Circle (6633')

Great
Bear Lake

Mt. McKinley
(highest point in North America, 6194 m)
+

(U.S.)

Norwegian
Sea

Jan Mayen

Baffin
Island

Wrangel
Island

East Siberian Sea

(DENMARK)

Arctic Circle (6633')

U. S.

OCEAN

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Laptev Sea

Barents Sea

Greenland

Baffin
Bay

ARCTIC OCEAN

Kara Sea

NOVAYA
ZEMLYA

(NORWAY)

180

SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA

Longyearbyen
Svalbard

150

120

FRANZ JOSEF
LAND

Greenland Sea

ISLANDS

Banks
Island

90

60

ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH

Beaufort Sea

30

GRE
AT

Sicily / AZORES

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Macquarie
Island
(AUSTL.)

BOUNTY ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
ANTIPODES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

Campbell
Island
(N.Z.)

SOUTHERN OCEAN

60

SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS

Antarctic Circle (6633')

Antarctic Circle (6633')

August 1999

Amery Ice
Shelf

Bellingshausen Sea

Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea

Ross Sea

Ross Sea

Ross
Ice Shelf

150

120

Antarctica

Ronne Ice Shelf

+
Vinson Massif
(highest point in Antarctica, 5140 m)

Ross Ice Shelf

90

60

30

30

60

90

120

150

180

Serbia and Montenegro have asserted the formation

of a joint independent state, but this entity has
not been formally recognized as a state by the
United States.

b Nineteen

of 26 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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