Physical Map of the World, April 2005

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 38N and 38S

Banks
Island

Barents Sea
Norwegian
Sea

Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Chukchi
Sea

Fortaleza

LE

Santiago

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

URUGUAY

Buenos Aires
Montevideo

ANDE

ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)

Crdoba

ARGENTINA

TAINS
UN

Port
Louis
MAURITIUS

Reunion
(FRANCE)

Europa Island
(FRANCE)

Pretoria

ID

CHILE

Maputo

AFRICA

Java Sea

Christmas Island

NC

PAPUA
NEW GUINEA

(AUSTL.)

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

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

Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

SOLOMON
ISLANDS

Dili

Arafura
Sea

EAST TIMOR

Gulf of
Carpentaria

Mbabane
SWAZILAND

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

Lord Howe
Island

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

le Saint-Paul

Sydney

Mount Kosciuszko
(highest point in
Australia, 2229m)

Great Australian
Bight

le Amsterdam

(U.S.)

NEW
ZEALAND

Tasman Sea

Gough Island
(St. Helena)

30

Auckland

Melbourne

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

OCEAN

(AUSTL.)

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)

Drake
Passage

American
Samoa

FIJI

VANUATU

New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)

GREAT VICTORIA
DESERT

Stanley

60

SAMOA
Apia
Mata-Utu
(FRANCE)
Pago Pago

(AUSTL.)

Canberra

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

Scotia Sea

Tokelau
(N.Z.)

Wallis and
Futuna

Coral
Sea
Re
ef

Cape
Town

D G
R I

S
Laguna del Carbn
(lowest point in South
America and the Western
Hemisphere, -105 m)

Funafuti

TUVALU

Honiara

Port
Moresby

Timor
Sea

(AUSTL.)

K I R I B A T I

Bismarck Sea

Banda Sea

Surabaya

Bandung

Howland Island (U.S.)

Baker Island (U.S.)
0

Alice Springs

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)

PATAGONIA

LESOTHO
SOUTH Maseru

(U.K.)

Punta Arenas

Antarctic Circle (6633')

N
Jakarta

30

MADAGASCAR

SaintDenis

Gaborone
Johannesburg

OCEAN
N

Prto
Alegre

St. Helena

INDIAN

EA

So Paulo

Asuncin

(FRANCE)

(FRANCE)

Antananarivo

Mozambique
Channel
Bassas
da India

KALAHARI
DESERT

Walvis Bay

Tromelin Island

OC

Rio de Janeiro

(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)

MOZAMBIQUE

BOTSWANA

Isla San Ambrosio

(CHILE)

Windhoek
DESER

Easter Island
(CHILE)

PARAGUAY

NAMIBIA

(FRANCE)

Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)

ZIMBABWE
IB

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)

(BRAZIL)

OCEAN

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

Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)

(BRAZIL)

MALAWI

Harare

Adamstown

Martin Vaz
Trindade

DESERT

LES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)

O
LAN

AMA
ATA C

(2327')

IP
ALT

Tropic of Capricorn

Belo
Horizonte

Glorioso Islands

Mayotte

Lusaka

ATLANTIC

BOLIVIA

(FRANCE)

(St. Helena)

NA

SOUTH PACIFIC
a
OCEAN

Moroni

Lilongwe

Namibe

St. Helena

Diego
Garcia

COMOROS

ZAMBIA

SOUTH

Braslia

Tarawa

Equator

Barrier

Lago
Titicaca
La Paz

P o l y n e s i

F r e n c h

Salvador

Celebes Sea

t
Grea

(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

Lake
Nyasa

Lubumbashi

ANGOLA
D

SOCIETY
ISLANDS

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU

(Fr. Poly.)

TANZANIA

(U.K.)

Dar es Salaam

SEYCHELLES

Cook Islands

Dodoma

British Indian
Ocean Territory

MID - INDIAN

HI

Lima
(N.Z.)

BRAZIL

Victoria

Luanda

(St. Helena)

PALAU

Yaren NAURU
District

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

-C

Ascension

PERU

Majuro

Palikir

RU

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

BRUNEI

Koror

Nairobi

BURUNDI

Lake
Tanganyika

(Cabinda)

Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A Y
Singapore
SINGAPORE

JA

PE

K I R I B A T I

OF THE CONGO

Kinshasa

ANGOLA

Mogadishu

Lake
Victoria
Bujumbura

Brazzaville

Medan

KENYA

RWANDA Kigali

REPUBLIC

(BRAZIL)

Male

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

EN
CH

Manaus

SRI
LANKA

Bandar Seri
Begawan

MALDIVES

DEMOCRATIC

(EQUA. GUI.)

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

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

TR

Annobon

ARQUIPLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA

Belm

Ho Chi Minh City

TO
NG
A

(ECUADOR)

ECUADOR
Guayaquil

Libreville REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO

So Tome

SOMALIA

Colombo

Guam

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

(U.S.)

UGANDA
Kampala

Phnom Penh
Gulf of
Thailand

Hagta

PHILIPPINES

Jarvis
Island

Bangui

Yaound

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

Laccadive
Sea

South China
Sea

CAMBODIA

Andaman
Sea

(INDIA)

EY
LL

ETHIOPIA

CENTRAL
AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Gulf of Guinea

Equator

(YEMEN)

ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Chennai
(Madras)

Saipan

(BRAZIL)

Quito

CAMEROON

Socotra

Djibouti

Bangalore

LAKSHADWEEP

Addis
Ababa

Abuja

Arabian
Sea

Bangkok

(U.S.)

Equator

PENEDOS DE
SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

NIGERIA

Malabo

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

COLOMBIA

N'Djamena

DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden

(U.S.)

Manila

VIETNAM

Wake Island

D
N
A

Cali

Bogot

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

PARACEL
ISLANDS

THAILAND

Bengal

Sea

CH

Isla de
Malpelo

Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
(FRANCE)
SURINAME Cayenne

SUDAN

Sanaa

Rangoon

Northern
Mariana
Islands

VENEZUELA

Asmara

Philippine

Hainan
Dao

S
Medelln

Isla del Coco

(COSTA RICA)

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO

Caracas

COSTA RICA Panama

PANAMA

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

Port-of-Spain

Maracaibo

CHAD

SENEGAL

Niamey
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

Praia

ST. VINCENT AND

THE GRENADINES
BARBADOS
Neth. Antilles
(NETH.)
GRENADA

Khartoum

Bay of

YEMEN

ERITREA

Gulf of

Vientiane Tonkin

EN
NE TR
I P PI
PHIL

(FRANCE)

Dakar

Martinique (FR.)
ST. LUCIA

NIGER

Tombouctou

S.A.R.

LAOS

- Hyderabad

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Hong Kong
Luzon Strait
Macau S.A.R.

Hanoi

INDIA
Mumbai
(Bombay)

(JAPAN)

Taiwan

BURMA

OMAN

MALI

CAPE VERDE

DOMINICA

(U.K.)

B
RU

MAURITANIA

Kolkata Dhaka
(Calcutta)

- Ahmadabad

(U.S.)

Marcus Island

Aruba
(NETH.)

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

Guadeloupe (FR.)

(U.S.)
Montserrat

LI

HA

K
' AL

Muscat

Caribbean Sea

San Jos

Clipperton Island

Santo Puerto
Domingo Rico

Jiddah

UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES

HAITI

(U.S.)

GUATEMALA HONDURAS
Tegucigalpa
Guatemala
San Salvador
NICARAGUA
EL SALVADOR
Managua

(U.S.)

Navassa
Island

Taipei

BANGLADESH

Karachi

Midway
Islands

Kingston

Abu
Dhabi

Okinawa

BELIZE
Belmopan

Nouakchott

Thimphu

30

JAMAICA

ST. KITTS AND NEVIS

Kathmandu

Kanpur

OMAN

East China
Sea

Chongqing

BHUTAN

Puebla

AS

NC

Prince

(U.K.)

QATAR

ARABIA

AY

NEPAL

Shanghai

Wuhan

ANA TRE

ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

Cayman Is.

Manama
Doha
Riyadh

Red
Sea

PAKISTAN

Persian
Gulf

Chengdu

(highest point in Asia

and the world, 8850 m)

RI

Mexico

BAHRAIN

Mt. Everest

AL

I C

T
N

M I
D A T
L A

Guadalajara

HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS

SAUDI

EGYPT

Western
Sahara

New
Delhi

KUWAIT

Kuwait

LIBYA

IM

JORDAN

ALGERIA
Laayoune
(El Aain)

Lahore

Yokohama

TO

CUBA

Islamabad

IRAN

CHINA

Line of
Actual
Control

N)
PA

MEXICO

Honolulu

Baghdad

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

Cairo

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

AFGHANISTAN

Tokyo
Osaka

Pusan

MOROCCO

Amman

IRAQ

Yellow
Sea

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

ISRAEL

Alexandria

Damascus

Indian
claim

PACIFIC
OCEAN

JAPAN

Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA

(JA

Havana

Beirut

Tianjin

PO

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

CYPRUS

(GR.)

Kabul

NORTH

Sea of
NORTH KOREA Japan
Pyongyang

Gulf of Mexico

Monterrey

THE
BAHAMAS
Nassau

Miami

LEB.

Shenyang

Beijing

NA

30

Crete

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

Tripoli

Houston

TURKEY

Bishkek
KYRGYZSTAN

Tashkent

TURKMENISTAN

Mediterranean Sea

Rabat

UZBEKISTAN

GO

SE

DE

BI

Casablanca

Baku

Athens

Tunis MALTA
Valletta
TUNISIA

(SP.)

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

rmqi

(lowest point in
Europe, -28 m)

Yerevan

(IT.)

Algiers

Melilla

Izmir

MONGOLIA

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Ankara

GREECE

(IT.)

Tbilisi

US
MT
S.

KURIL
ISLANDS

Aral
Sea
Caspian
Sea

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar

GEORGIA

Istanbul

MACEDONIA

Tirana

Sicily
Gibraltar(U.K.)

CAU
C AS

BULGARIA

Skopje

ALB.

Sardinia

BALEARIC
ISLANDS
(SP.)

Ceuta (SP.)

OCEAN

(U.K.)

SPAIN

Sea of
Azov

IS
L A N
D S
AN
)

Bermuda

Tijuana

Barcelona

Rome

AZORES
(PORT.)

ATLANTIC

Dallas

Madrid

VATICAN
CITY

(FR.)

Lake Balkhash

Black Sea

Sofia

NORTH

Atlanta

Los Angeles

Corsica

ANDORRA

SER.&
MONT.

ITALY Sarajevo

AY

AP

Boston

Washington, D.C.

KAZAKHSTAN

AN

Marseille

BOS. & HER.

MARINO

LT

(J

A
PP

I
CH
LA

Kharkiv

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

(U.S.)

Sakhalin

Kiev

UKRAINE

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Irkutsk

Astana

Vienna

MONACO

PORTUGAL
Lisbon

Samara

Sea of
Okhotsk

Denver

(FRANCE)

Lake
Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

BELARUS

Bratislava
MOLDOVA
LIECH.
SWITZ.
AUSTRIA
Budapest
Chi sinau
FRANCE
S Ljubljana HUNGARY
P
Bern L
ROMANIA
Odesa
SLOVENIA
A
CROATIA Belgrade
Zagreb
Milan SAN
Bucharest

Bay of
Biscay

St. Pierre
and Miquelon

Lake Ontario

NS
AI
NT
U
O
New York
M
Philadelphia

Lake Erie

STATES

Montral

Yekaterinburg

Minsk

SLOVAKIA

Paris

60

Bering Sea

RIDG

Detroit
Chicago

BELGIUM
LUX.

Yakutsk

ST

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

Toronto

Brussels

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

Gulf of
St. Lawrence

Lake
Michigan

UNITED

Celtic
Sea

NETH.

R U S S I A

Nizhniy
Novgorod

Moscow

VA

San Francisco

M O U NT A I N S

PACIFIC

Minneapolis

London

POLAND
Warsaw
Berlin
GERMANY
Prague
Luxembourg CZECH REP.
Hamburg

Amsterdam

KINGDOM

Vilnius

RUSSIA

TY E A

Island of
Newfoundland

Isle of
Man (U.K.)

NINE

Dublin
IRELAND

Lake
Winnipeg

NORTH

Belfast

Edmonton

Baltic
LAT.
Sea Riga
LITH.

North
DENMARK
Sea Copenhagen

UNITED

CANADA

St. Petersburg

Tallinn EST.

URA

Stockholm
Rockall
(U.K.)

Lake
Huron
Ottawa

Helsinki

MO

Oslo

Labrador
Sea

Lake
Superior

FINLAND

Gulf
of
Bothnia

(DEN.)

Trshavn

White Sea

SWEDEN

Faroe
Islands

Reykjavk

Hudson
Bay

Vancouver
Seattle

Nuuk (Godthb)

NORWAY

ICELAND

Denmark
Strait

RIF
T

Davis
Strait

GRE
AT

ROCK

NDS

ISLA

Wrangel
Island

East Siberian Sea

Arctic Circle (6633')

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 (6633')

U. S.

IAN

60

FRANZ JOSEF
LAND

Greenland Sea

Victoria
Island

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

T
ALEU

Ellesmere
Island

ISLANDS

Barrow

30

ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH

Beaufort Sea

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 (6633')

Amery Ice
Shelf

Bellingshausen Sea

Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea

Ross Sea

Ross Sea
Ronne Ice Shelf

+
Vinson Massif
(highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)

Ross
Ice Shelf
150

120

Antarctic

a*
Ross Ice Shelf

90

60

30

30

60

90

120

150

180

April 2005
*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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