Physical Map of the World, June 2003 AUSTRALIA
Independent state
Bermuda
Dependency or area of special sovereignty Island / island group
150
Capital
90
120
60
30
Scale 1:35,000,000 Robinson Projection standard parallels 38°N and 38°S
Banks Island
Longyearbyen
Chukchi Sea
Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO
São Tome
Annobon
Brazzaville
A
LE
D
R E C
H
SEYCHELLES Moroni
Tromelin Island
MOZAMBIQUE Mozambique Channel
Bassas da India (FRANCE)
(FRANCE)
Antananarivo
MADAGASCAR
SaintDenis Reunion
Port Louis MAURITIUS
(FRANCE)
Europa Island (FRANCE)
Gaborone Pretoria Johannesburg
INDIAN OCEAN
G
Maputo
Mbabane SWAZILAND
AFRICA
N
D
Jakarta
O
N
E
Java Sea
S
H
I
A
T
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Banda Sea
R
Surabaya
Bandung
E
Christmas Island
NC
(AUSTL.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
H
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
(AUSTL.)
Arafura Sea
EAST TIMOR
Gulf of Carpentaria
Coral Sea Islands
Port-Vila
Niue (N.Z.)
Suva
New Caledonia (FRANCE)
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) +
GREAT VICTORIA DESERT
SOUTH PACIFIC
Norfolk Island
Brisbane
(AUSTL.)
Durban Perth
Île Saint-Paul
Sydney
Mount Kosciuszko (highest point in Australia, 2229m) +
(U.S.)
NEW ZEALAND
Tasman Sea
(St. Helena)
30
Auckland
Melbourne
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)
OCEAN
Lord Howe Island
Great Australian Bight
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Gough Island
American Samoa
FIJI
(AUSTL.)
Île Amsterdam
Tasmania
Wellington
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Christchurch
(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)
Stanley
Drake Passage
SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago
VANUATU
Re ef
Tokelau (N.Z.)
Wallis and Futuna
Coral Sea
(AUSTL.)
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.)
Bouvet Island (NORWAY)
Punta Arenas
60
Funafuti
TUVALU
Honiara
Port Moresby
Timor Sea
(AUSTL.)
K I R I B A T I
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Dili
+ (deepest point of the Indian Ocean, -7258 m)
Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0
Bismarck Sea
Canberra
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)
Scotia Sea
Tarawa
Equator
Cape Town
D G R I
S PATAGONIA
Celebes Sea
A
LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru
(U.K.)
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
+ Peninsula Valdés (lowest point in South America, -40 m)
I
Alice Springs
ID
Montevideo
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
Juan de Nova Island (FR.)
KALAHARI DESERT
S
R
ARGENTINA
MALAWI
BOTSWANA
T
URUGUAY
Buenos Aires
St. Helena
(FRANCE)
N
DESER
Santiago
Cerro Aconcagua (highest point in South America, 6962 m)
ANDE
ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE)
Córdoba
Windhoek
Glorioso Islands
Mayotte
Lilongwe
ZIMBABWE NAMIBIA
Diego Garcia
EA
Walvis Bay
São Paulo
+
(U.K.)
OC
Rio de Janeiro
Asunción
30
CHILE
IB
PARAGUAY
OCEAN
M
(BRAZIL)
Pôrto Alegre
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
Lake Nyasa
Harare
NA
Easter Island (CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
(BRAZIL)
M I D - A T L A N T I C
Isla San Felíx (CHILE)
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)
Martin Vaz Trindade
DESERT
Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)
Belo Horizonte
O L AN
AMA ATA C
Adamstown
IP ALT
ÎLES TUBUAI (Fr. Poly.)
TANZANIA
I
British Indian Ocean Territory
Dar es Salaam
Lusaka
ATLANTIC
BOLIVIA
(23°27')
ZAMBIA
Namibe
St. Helena
Y
PALAU
Barrier
N
Tropic of Capricorn
Dodoma
COMOROS
(St. Helena)
A
Majuro
Palikir
t Grea
N
T
(FRANCE)
Victoria
MID - INDIAN
HI
P o l y n e s i
+
Luanda
SOUTH
Brasília
L
Koror
Yaren NAURU District
A
-C
F r e n c h
Lago Titicaca La Paz
S
BRUNEI
MARSHALL ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
Singapore SINGAPORE
Mt. Kilimanjaro (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
ANGOLA E
Medan
Mogadishu
BURUNDI
Lake Tanganyika
Bandar Seri Begawan Kuala Lumpur M A
(U.S.) + Challenger Deep (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
Nairobi
Lake Victoria Bujumbura
Lubumbashi
Salvador
Male
SPRATLY ISLANDS
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
SRI LANKA
Guam
V
RU
(Fr. Poly.)
SOUTH PACIFIC a OCEAN
Ascension
(St. Helena)
BRAZIL
PERU
SOMALIA
Colombo
Ho Chi Minh City
JA
PE
SOCIETY ISLANDS
OF THE CONGO
(Cabinda)
Cook Islands
Papeete
REPUBLIC
Laccadive Sea
MALDIVES
RWANDA Kigali
Kinshasa
Andaman Sea
(INDIA)
KENYA
DEMOCRATIC
(EQUA. GUI.)
(BRAZIL)
ANGOLA
Lima
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)
UGANDA Kampala
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
PHILIPPINES
EN CH
Yaoundé
Fortaleza
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
Bangui
CAMBODIA
Saipan
Hagåtña
TR
Malabo
LAKSHADWEEP
EY LL
ETHIOPIA
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
Chennai (Madras)
South China Sea
TO NG A
CAMEROON
(YEMEN)
Bangalore
Bangkok
H
Abuja
Socotra
Djibouti
Bengal
C
Manaus
Addis Ababa
DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
Arabian Sea
(U.S.)
Manila
VIETNAM
(U.S.)
N
Guayaquil
NIGERIA
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Equator
Lac 'Assal (lowest point in Africa, -155 m)
N'Djamena
Gulf of Guinea
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Belém
SUDAN
Sanaa
Sea PARACEL ISLANDS
THAILAND
Wake Island
E
Niamey
Asmara
Rangoon
Northern Mariana Islands
R
(ECUADOR)
ECUADOR
CHAD
Bay of
Philippine
Hainan Dao
T
(BRAZIL)
Khartoum
S.A.R.
Gulf of
Vientiane Tonkin
YEMEN
ERITREA
Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.
Hanoi
BURMA
C
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(U.S.)
SENEGAL
PENEDOS DE SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
Quito
Jarvis Island
NIGER
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Taiwan
LAOS
- Hyderabad
(JAPAN)
E
Equator
INDIA
MALI
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
COLOMBIA
OMAN
(U.S.)
Marcus Island
D
S D
N
A
Cali
I
AL
KH
Y
K
CH
Bogotá
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne
L B' A
R
U
Midway Islands
A
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
ARABIA
Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta)
- Ahmadabad
Mumbai (Bombay)
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
VENEZUELA
E
Medellín Isla de Malpelo
Praia
Jiddah
Muscat
RU
MAURITANIA
Tombouctou
Dakar
A
Taipei
BANGLADESH
¯ Karachi
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Okinawa
30
NC
T
N Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA
Caracas
Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
(U.K.)
Maracaibo
COSTA RICA Panama PANAMA
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
DOMINICA
R
Thimphu
Kanpur
OMAN
Abu Dhabi
EN NE TR I P PI PHIL
(FRANCE)
CAPE VERDE
A
+
East China Sea
Chongqing
BHUTAN
Kathmandu
Shanghai
Wuhan
M
Aruba
(NETH.)
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.) Montserrat
H
AS
Chengdu
R
Caribbean Sea
San José
Clipperton Island
Santo Puerto Domingo Rico
A
Red Sea
AY
NEPAL
(highest point in Asia and the world, 8850 m)
E
(U.S.)
GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua
(U.S.)
Navassa Island
HAITI
Manama Doha Riyadh
PAKISTAN
Mt. Everest
AL
Yokohama
K
Kingston
Nouakchott
SAUDI
Persian Gulf
QATAR
S
New Delhi
KUWAIT
BAHRAIN
IM
Pusan
ANA TRE
I C JAMAICA
BELIZE Belmopan
M I D A T L A
Puebla
JORDAN
EGYPT
Western Sahara
H
Lahore
CHINA
O
(U.K.)
LIBYA
¯ Islamabad
IRAN Kuwait
Laayoune (El Aaiún)
Line of Actual Control
OT
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Cayman Is.
ALGERIA
Baghdad
Jerusalem + Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
Cairo
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
AFGHANISTAN
)
Mexico
TAINS
MOROCCO
Amman
IRAQ
Tokyo
N PA
Guadalajara
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Damascus
Osaka
H - S
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
CUBA
Beirut
Yellow Sea
PACIFIC OCEAN
JAPAN
Seoul SOUTH KOREA
(JA
MEXICO
Honolulu
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
UN
Tripoli
LEB.
CYPRUS
(GR.)
Kabul
NORTH KOREA Japan Pyongyang
Tianjin
DESERT
NORTH
Sea of
Beijing
PO
Havana
Mediterranean Sea
(SP.)
Rabat
Mashhad
Tehran
Shenyang
TAKLA MAKAN
Indian claim
occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sapporo
M
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Casablanca
SYRIA
RT
RI
MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
Aleppo
Nicosia Crete
Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
Ashgabat
¯
Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA
Tashkent
TURKMENISTAN
G
Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
SE
DE
I OB
NA
Gulf of Mexico
Monterrey
THE BAHAMAS Nassau
Miami
Algiers
Gibraltar(U.K.)
Baku
Athens
(IT.)
Melilla
UZBEKISTAN
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)
Yerevan
TURKEY
·Izmir
Ürümqi
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
Ankara
THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
GREECE
(IT.)
Tbilisi
MONGOLIA
A
E
Houston
30
Sardinia
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
GEORGIA
Istanbul
KURIL ISLANDS
M
G
Tirana
Sicily Ceuta (SP.)
D
OCEAN
(U.K.)
SPAIN
BULGARIA
Skopje
ALB.
Caspian Sea
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar
.
-
Bermuda
Tijuana
Barcelona
Rome
S
Aral Sea
US MT S.
(U.S.)
-
Dallas
VATICAN CITY
(FR.)
AZORES (PORT.)
ATLANTIC
Atlanta
Los Angeles
PORTUGAL Lisbon
NORTH
Washington, D.C.
Madrid
Corsica
T
IS L A N D S AN )
AN
ANDORRA
CAU + C AS
Black Sea
Sofia
M
Lake Balkhash
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)
Sea of Azov
AY
U
A
A PP
Boston
SER.& MONT.
ITALY Sarajevo
KAZAKHSTAN
AP
STATES
I CH LA
MARINO
MONACO
Marseille
BOS. & HERZ.
LT
Y
Denver
(FRANCE)
Lake Ontario
Vienna
LIECH.
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Sakhalin
A
Kharkiv
Sea of Okhotsk
Irkutsk
Astana
Kiev
UKRAINE
Bratislava MOLDOVA SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chi sinau FRANCE S HUNGARY Bern L P Ljubljana ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA A CROATIA Belgrade Zagreb Milan SAN Bucharest
Bay of Biscay
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Samara
BELARUS
SLOVAKIA
Lake Baikal
(J
Lake Erie
Paris
Montréal
NS AI NT U O New York M Philadelphia
BELGIUM LUX.
Novosibirsk
Omsk
Minsk
E
Detroit Chicago
Brussels
Guernsey (U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)
Moscow
Yekaterinburg
RIDG
Toronto
Berlin GERMANY Prague Luxembourg CZECH REP.
60
Bering Sea
Nizhniy Novgorod
VA
Death Valley (lowest point in North America, -86 m) +
Lake Huron Ottawa
Lake Michigan
UNITED
Celtic Sea
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Superior Minneapolis
London
NETH.
POLAND Warsaw
Hamburg
Amsterdam
KINGDOM
A Yakutsk
NINE
Island of Newfoundland
Isle of Man (U.K.)
I
ST
Dublin IRELAND
Vilnius
RUSSIA
R
TY E A
Belfast
E
L
Labrador Sea
Baltic LAT. Sea Riga LITH.
North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen
RIF T
San Francisco
UNITED
St. Petersburg
Tallinn EST.
B
R U S S I A
URA
(U.K.)
Edmonton
M O U NT A I N S
PACIFIC
Stockholm
Rockall
Lake Winnipeg
Helsinki
I
MO
Oslo
CANADA
FINLAND
Gulf of Bothnia
(DEN.)
Tórshavn
S
White Sea
SWEDEN
Faroe Islands
Reykjavík
Hudson Bay
Y
NORTH
Nuuk (Godthåb)
NORWAY
ICELAND
Denmark Strait
I
ROCK
NDS
ISLA
Wrangel Island
East Siberian Sea
GRE AT
Great Slave Lake
Whitehorse
Seattle
(N.Z.)
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Laptev Sea
Norwegian Sea
(NORWAY)
Vancouver
K I R I B A T I
Kara Sea
Barents Sea Jan Mayen
Davis Strait
Gulf of Alaska
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)
ARCTIC OCEAN
Arctic Circle (66°33')
60
Johnston Atoll
180
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
NOVAYA ZEMLYA
(NORWAY)
150
120
(DENMARK)
Baffin Island
Great Bear Lake
Anchorage
(U.S.)
Svalbard
Greenland
Baffin Bay
90
Arctic Circle (66°33')
Mt. McKinley (highest point in North America, 6194 m) +
OCEAN
60
FRANZ JOSEF LAND
Greenland Sea
Victoria Island
U. S.
TIAN ALEU
Ellesmere Island
ISLANDS
Barrow
30
ARCTIC OCEAN QUEEN ELIZABETH
Beaufort Sea
0
0
ARCTIC OCEAN
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
June 2003
Ross Sea
Ross Sea Ross Ice Shelf 150
120
A n t a r c t i c a*
Ronne Ice Shelf
+ Vinson Massif (highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)
* Twenty
Ross Ice Shelf 90
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.
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
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