Physical Map of the World, June 2012

AUSTRALIA

Independent state
Dependency or area of special sovereignty
Island / island group

150

Capital

60

90

120

Ellesmere
Island

QUEEN ELIZABETH
Resolute

Barrow

Victoria
Island

(NORWAY)

Tiksi

Baffin
Island

Jan Mayen

Norwegian
Sea

(NORWAY)

Annobon

ARQUIPLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Fortaleza

Brazzaville
Pointe-Noire

RU

ILE

BRAZIL

ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)

Santiago

URUGUAY

Rosario

Buenos Aires
La Plata

Concepcin

PATAGONIA

OCEAN

INS

NTA

Gaborone
Pretoria Maputo

SOUTH
AFRICA

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

TRE

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

NCH

Maseru

Mbabane

NC

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

Timor
Sea

Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

PAPUA
NEW GUINEA

Arafura
Sea

Cape Town

Punta Arenas

Antarctic Circle (6633')

(AUSTL.)

LESOTHO SWAZILAND

(U.K.)

GE
RID

PACIFIC

Baha Blanca

(FRANCE)

Christmas Island

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Puerto Montt

Montevideo

ARGENTINA

ANDE

SOUTH

Mendoza

MAURITIUS

(FRANCE)

Johannesburg

Banda Sea
Dli

Valparaiso

Port Louis

Reunion

Europa
Island

KALAHARI
DESERT

TIMOR-LESTE
Kupang

CHILE

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

MADAGASCAR

SaintDenis

OCEAN

ID

Prto
Alegre

30

Saint Helena, Ascension,

and Tristan da Cunha

(FRANCE)

Joinville

Bassas
da India

(AUSTL.)

Santos

Florianpolis

Windhoek

Mozambique
Channel

Beira

BOTSWANA

Antananarivo

EA

Walvis Bay

Curitiba

San Miguel
de Tucumn

OCEAN

Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)

INDIAN
OC

Easter Island
(CHILE)

(BRAZIL)

(FRANCE)

MOZAMBIQUE

Bulawayo

Tromelin Island

AN

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)

So Paulo

Trindade

ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA

DESERT

Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)

(BRAZIL)

Rio de
Janeiro

Campinas

Asuncin

Martin Vaz

(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)

MALAWI
Blantyre

Harare

IB

Antofagasta

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio
(CHILE)

Belo
Horizonte

M I D - AT
LA NTIC

Adamstown

(Fr. Poly.)

ATLANTIC
Vitria

PARAGUAY

DESERT

LES TUBUAI

(2327')

Campo
Grande

Saint Helena

(FRANCE)

Mayotte

Lilongwe

Lusaka

Tropic of Capricorn

AMA

(FRANCE)

Uberlndia

Namibe

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.)

BOLIVIA

Moroni

COMOROS

ZAMBIA

SOUTH

Braslia

La Paz
A
IPL
ALT

Niue
(N.Z.)

Lago
Titicaca

Arequipa

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU

(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

Salvador

Semarang
Surabaya
Malang
JA
Denpasar
V

Diego
Garcia

Glorioso Islands

Ndola

O
Makassar

Barrier

SOCIETY
ISLANDS

ANGOLA

Java Sea

Jayapura

t
Grea

E
EN

Lake
Nyasa

Lubumbashi

N
Jakarta

(U.S.)

Baker Island (U.S.)

Yaren NAURU
District

Bandung

SEYCHELLES

Howland Island

Tarawa

Equator

Banjarmasin

TanjungkarangTelukbetung

(U.K.)

Celebes Sea

Pontianak Samarinda

British Indian
Ocean Territory

Dar es Salaam

TANZANIA

Macei

Cusco

Victoria

Luanda

Benguela

TR

(N.Z.)

Dodoma

Lake
Tanganyika

Palembang

Mombasa

BURUNDI

Mbuji-Mayi

Recife

Prto Velho

PERU

Lima
Cook Islands

OF THE CONGO

Ascension

Kilimanjaro
(highest point in Africa, 5895 m)

PALAU

SINGAPORE

Padang

I
MID - IND

H
- C

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

Joo Pessoa

Trujillo

Lake
Victoria

Bujumbura

Kinshasa

ANGOLA
(Cabinda)

PE

Natal

Pekanbaru

Nairobi

RWANDA Kigali

REPUBLIC

Mogadishu

KENYA

DEMOCRATIC

(EQUA. GUI.)

(BRAZIL)

Teresina

K I R I B A T I

REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO

Majuro

Palikir

NC
H

Belm
So Lus

Manaus

Iquitos

Kampala

Kisangani

Libreville

MALDIVES

Bandar Seri
Begawan
BRUNEI

TR
E

Guayaquil

UGANDA

Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A
Singapore

Medan

Melekeok

Davao

Zamboanga

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Male

Yaound

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

(ECUADOR)

SOMALIA

Colombo
SRI
LANKA

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

Cebu

TO
NG

(U.S.)

ECUADOR

Laccadive
Sea

(U.S.)

Ho Chi Minh
City

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

Kochi

Hagta
Guam

PHILIPPINES

Jarvis
Island

Malabo

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tom

Equator

(INDIA)

Phnom
Penh
Gulf of
Thailand

Andaman
Sea

Madurai

ETHIOPIA

Juba

Coimbatore

South China
Sea

CAMBODIA

EN

(BRAZIL)

Quito

Hargeysa

EY
LL

Kozhikode

ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Equator

(YEMEN)

Douala

Gulf of Guinea

PENEDOS DE
SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

Socotra

Chennai

Bangalore

Saipan

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

SOUTH
SUDAN

DJIBOUTI
Djibouti

Arabian
Sea LAKSHADWEEP

Gulf of Aden

(U.S.)

Manila

(U.S.)

COLOMBIA

Cali

Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)

Addis
Ababa

Aden

Wake Island

Bogot

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

Northern
Mariana
Islands

Sea

PARACEL
ISLANDS

VIETNAM

Bangkok

Philippine

NC

Isla de
Malpelo
(COLOMBIA)

Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
(FRANCE)
SURINAME Cayenne

VENEZUELA

Medelln

Mekele

Bengal

THAILAND

Luzon
Strait

Hainan
Dao
Da Nang

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Taiwan
Kaohsiung

TRE

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

PANAMA

Isla del Coco

(COSTA RICA)

Ciudad
Guayana

Sanaa

Rangoon

(U.S.)

(JAPAN)

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

Valencia
Ccuta

Bay of

Chiang Vientiane
Mai

Minami-tori-shima

NE

RICA

TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO

Asmara

Kassala

Khartoum

Vishakhapatnam

Vijayawada

YEMEN

Gulf of
Tonkin

IPPI

(FRANCE)

Port of Spain

ERITREA

LAOS

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

Midway
Islands

PHIL

Clipperton Island

Caracas

Maracaibo

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

GRENADA

Barranquilla
Cartagena

San Jos
Coln Panama
COSTA
City

CAPE VERDE

Omdurman

Nay Pyi
Taw

Pune
Hyderabad

SUDAN

NIGER

Hanoi

30

(NETH.)

Managua

Timbuktu

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

Aruba

NICARAGUA

EL SALVADOR

MALI

Taipei

Xiamen

Mandalay

BURMA

INDIA

Okinawa

Fuzhou

Shantou

Jamshedpur
Khulna
Kolkata Chittagong

Nagpur

Surat

Guiyang
Kunming

BANGLADESH
Dhaka

Ahmadabad Bhopal

OMAN

Thimphu
Patna

Karachi

Mumbai

Nouakchott

(U.K.)

' AL

B
RU

Port Sudan

MAURITANIA

Montserrat

Caribbean Sea

Tegucigalpa

Chongqing

Guatemala City
San Salvador

HONDURAS

Kanpur Lucknow

Hyderabad

Chengdu

Lhasa
BHUTAN

GUATEMALA

YA

NEPAL
Kathmandu

Indore

LI
HA

LA

(U.S.)

(U.S.)

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

Yokohama

saka
O

Belmopan

Mt. Everest

(highest point in Asia

and the world, 8850 m)

Tokyo

Nagoya
Hiroshima

BELIZE

Oaxaca

HAITI Santo Puerto

Navassa
Domingo Rico
Island

Jaipur

Xi'an

Busan

ANA TRE

JAMAICA
Kingston

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

Ludhiana

Agra

ARABIA

Red Jeddah
Sea Mecca

IM

Yellow
Sea

Zhengzhou

PACIFIC
OCEAN

JAPAN

Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA

RI

(U.K.)

Puebla

DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
Santiago San Juan

Port-auPrince

British
Virgin Islands
(U.K.)

Virgin
Islands
(U.S.)

PAKISTAN

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

Medina

Aswan

CHINA

Dalian
Yantai

Cayman Is.

Acapulco

(U.S.)

Cancn

Johnston Atoll

(U.K.)

Toluca
ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

Mrida

Mexico
City

U.S.

Turks and
Caicos Islands

CUBA

Guadalajara

Honolulu

Len

Zahedan

Lanzhou

New
Delhi

SAUDI

EGYPT

Western
Sahara

z
Shira

Lahore
Faisalabad
Multan
Quetta

Zibo
Jinan
Qingdao

NORTH

Sea of
Japan

LIBYA

Kandahar

IRAN

KUWAIT
Kuwait

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

Line of
Actual
Control

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

Esfahan
Ahvaz

Tianjin
Shijiazhuang
Taiyuan

ALGERIA

T
San Luis
Potos

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

OU

Al Jizah

Laayoune

Havana

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

Jerusalem

Cairo

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

M I
D AT
L A

MEXICO

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

THE
Nassau
BAHAMAS

ISRAEL

Alexandria

Peshawar

Occupied by SOVIET UNION in 1945,

administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

Sapporo

TO

Gulf of Mexico

Tel Aviv-Yafo
Benghazi

IRAQ

Damascus
Baghdad
Amman
Al Basrah
JORDAN

1972
Line of Control

Kabul

Herat

NORTH KOREA
Pyongyang

Datong

Indian
claim

Vladivostok

Shenyang

DESERT

Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN

Jilin

Beijing

TAKLA MAKAN

Kashi

Changchun

Tripoli

Marrakech

Qom
Kermanshah

DE

BI

Baotou

Mashhad

Tehran

Erbil

GO

T
SER

Matamoros

Miami

Aleppo

KURIL
ISLANDS

HO
- S
P O PAN)
JA

Monterrey
Torren

Mosul

CYPRUS Beirut
LEBANON

(GR.)

UZBEKISTAN

S
ND
ISLA

Harbin

rmqi

KYRGYZSTAN

AL
EUT
IAN

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar

S.

Bishkek

Tashkent

TURKMENISTAN
Ashgabat

Tabriz

SYRIA

Shymkent

(lowest point in
Europe, -28 m)

AZERBAIJAN

IS
L A N
D S
)

Mediterranean Sea

Fs

S.

MONGOLIA

Almaty

Caspian
Sea

Baku

Gaziantep

Nicosia
Crete

AN

Valletta

S M
T

Yerevan

URKEY

Lake Balkhash

Aral
Sea

Aqta
(Aktau)

ARMENIA

Ankara

LT

AP

Tunis
TUNISIA

GEORGIA

Adana

(IT.)

MALTA

Constantine

Oran

Athens

MOROCCO

Orlando

Tampa

Palermo

Sicily

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

Tbilisi

Bursa
.
T
Izmir
Konya

Atyra

Astrakhan'

Black Sea

Sakhalin

KAZAKHSTAN

Rostov

Istanbul

GREECE

(IT.)

(SP.)

Casablanca

Sardinia

BALEARIC
ISLANDS
(SP.)

Algiers

Gibraltar (U.K.)
Melilla

Rabat

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

Jacksonville

San
Antonio

Chihuahua

Sevilla
Mlaga
Ceuta (SP.)

Valencia

U.S.

PetropavlovskKamchatskiy

Chita

ATLANTIC
OCEAN

Lisbon

AZORES
(PORT.)

SPAIN

Naples

Irkutsk

Astana

Volgograd

Sea of
Azov

MONT.
Skopje
Tirana
MACEDONIA
ALB.

Rome

CITY

Barcelona

Madrid

PORTUGAL

NORTH

(U.K.)

New
Houston Orleans

Austin

AUSTRIA

UKRAINE

Sea of
Okhotsk

Barnaul

Orenburg

Saratov

Lake
Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Ciudad
Juarez

(FR.)

Porto

Bermuda

Dallas
El Paso

LIECH.

Ufa

Krasnoyarsk

Qaraghandy
(Karaganda)

Kharkiv
Donets'k
MOLDOVA
Chisinau
Odesa

SLOVAKIA

Bratislava
Budapest

Vienna

Bering Sea
Tomsk

Yekaterinburg
Chelyabinsk

NA

San Diego
Tijuana Mexicali

30

(FRANCE)

Halifax

Lake Ontario

CZECH REP.

Munich

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

St. Pierre
and Miquelon

Atlanta

Phoenix

Paris

60

Tyumen'

Izhevsk

Kyiv

L'viv

Provideniya

Yakutsk

(J

Oklahoma City

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

Krakw

Anadyr'

Montral

Prague

Magadan

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

STATES

Las Vegas
Los Angeles

Qubec

Berlin

Amsterdam

NETH.
London Brussels
Lille

Celtic
Sea

I C

OCEAN

KINGDOM

Gulf of
St. Lawrence

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

Kansas City

(U.K.)

Hamburg

Birmingham

UNITED
Denver

Leeds

Isle of
Man

Dublin
IRELAND

Perm'

Yaroslavl'

LAT.

LITH.
Vilnius

RUSSIA

RIDG

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

Toronto

Milwaukee

UNITED

Belfast

EST.

Baltic

Sea Riga

DENMARK
Copenhagen

ST

Sacramento
San Francisco

Lake
Michigan

Minneapolis

NTAINS

PACIFIC

Sea

TYEA

MOU

Salt Lake City

Lake
Huron
Ottawa

North
Sea

Lake
Onega

Saint Petersburg

Tallinn

(U.K.)

Glasgow

Lake
Ladoga

Helsinki

URA

Rockall

Island of
Newfoundland

Lake
Superior

FINLAND

Gulf
of
Bothnia

(DEN.)

Stockholm

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

Winnipeg

Arkhangel'sk

NINE

NORTH

Chukchi

Cherskiy

Reykjavk

Labrador
Sea

Kuujjuaq

Lake
Winnipeg

Saskatoon

White Sea

SWEDEN

Faroe
Islands

NORWAY

ICELAND

Vancouver

Portland

Murmansk

VA

Edmonton
Calgary

Seattle

Noril'sk

DS
SLAN

Pevek

Oslo

CANADA

Prince
George

Davis
Strait

Denmark
Strait

Hudson
Bay

Fort McMurray

CK

Juneau

(Godthb)

Trshavn

Churchill

RO

TIAN

Iqaluit

Great
Slave Lake

Whitehorse

60

ALEU

Nuuk

Great
Bear Lake

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

Gulf of Alaska

Wrangel
Island

Arctic Circle (6633')

Fairbanks

Anchorage

Laptev Sea
East Siberian Sea

RIF

U. S.

Barents Sea

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Kara Sea

(DENMARK)

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nome

ARCTIC OCEAN

SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA

NOVAYA
ZEMLYA

Svalbard

Greenland

Baffin
Bay

Pond Inlet

180

Longyearbyen

Greenland Sea

ISLANDS

Banks
Island

Beaufort Sea

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

GRE
AT

Sicily / AZORES

Bermuda

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.
60

30

30

Ross Ice Shelf

June 2012
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

60

90

120

150

180

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