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 38˚N and 38˚S
Ellesmere
Island
Barrow
Victoria
Island
(NORWAY)
Kingston
T
Neth. Antilles
TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO
Caracas
S
Medellín
VENEZUELA
N
D
Isla del Coco
(COSTA RICA)
Isla de
Malpelo
Cali
Bogotá
A
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
C
H
Port
Louis
MAURITIUS
Reunion
(FRANCE)
(FRANCE)
Maputo
Mbabane
SWAZILAND
E
S
I
A
Bismarck Sea
PAPUA
NEW GUINEA
Banda Sea
E
Christmas Island
NC
(AUSTL.)
Cocos
(Keeling) Islands
H
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 (23˚27')
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
Île Saint-Paul
K
Sydney
Mount Kosciuszko
(highest point in
Australia, 2229m) +
Great Australian
Bight
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
(U.S.)
(St. Helena)
M
A
D
R
E
30
C
NEW
ZEALAND
Tasman Sea
Gough Island
E
R
E
T
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)
ÎLES CROZET
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
SNARES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
ÎLES 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.)
Île 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
E
PATAGONIA
N
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 Valdés
(lowest point in South America,
-40 m)
D
E
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
+
PALAU
Alice Springs
G
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
A
R
URUGUAY
(FRANCE)
INDIAN
N
Santiago
Cerro Aconcagua
(highest point in South America,
6962 m)
ANDE
ARCHIPIÉLAGO
JUAN FERNÁNDEZ
(CHILE)
Córdoba
+
Bassas
da India
(FRANCE)
EA
30
St. Helena
Tromelin Island
Mozambique
Channel
KALAHARI
DESERT
T
Pôrto
Alegre
CHILE
DESER
Isla San Ambrosio
(CHILE)
São Paulo
Asunción
(FRANCE)
Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)
BOTSWANA
Walvis Bay
M I
D - A
T L A N T I C
Isla Sala y Gómez
(CHILE)
Easter Island
(CHILE)
NAMIBIA
Windhoek
Rio de Janeiro
Glorioso Islands
(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)
MOZAMBIQUE
N
Jakarta
R
OC
DESERT
Isla San Felíx
(CHILE)
PARAGUAY
OCEAN
B
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
I
(U.S.)
+
Challenger Deep
(world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m)
Barrier
N
Adamstown
Moroni
Lilongwe
Harare
S
(U.S.)
t
Grea
E
E
(23˚27')
ÎLES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)
Lake
Nyasa
Namibe
St. Helena
(St. Helena)
ATLANTIC
Belo
Horizonte
(U.K.)
Dar es Salaam
COMOROS
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasília
BOLIVIA
(FRANCE)
Tropic of Capricorn
Lago
Titicaca
La Paz
I
British Indian
Ocean Territory
T
D
R
P o l y n e s i
Victoria
SEYCHELLES
N
T
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
A
A
LE
(Fr. Poly.)
OF THE CONGO
Saipan
Hagåtña
Ho Chi Minh City
NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)
SRI
LANKA
Male
MID-INDIAN
HI
SOCIETY
ISLANDS
Papeete
SOMALIA
Colombo
(U.S.)
Manila
V
-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 (23˚27')
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
ÎLES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)
Bangui
Yaoundé
São Tome
YEMEN
K
(PORT.)
LAOS
Bay of
U
Midway
Islands
Hong Kong
Luzon Strait
Macau S.A.R.
Hanoi
INDIA
- Hyderabad
Y
30
Taiwan
BURMA
OMAN
ETHIOPIA
CENTRAL
AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Dhaka
Calcutta
LAKSHADWEEP
Addis
Ababa
Abuja
Fortaleza
K I R I B A T I
R
- Ahmadabad
Sanaa
Lac 'Assal
(lowest point in Africa,
-155 m)
N'Djamena
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Equator
ERITREA
Asmara
Gulf of Guinea
Arquipélago de
Fernando de Noronha
Manaus
Khartoum
CHAD
Niamey
Penedos de
São Pedro e São 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
CÔTE
TOGO
Freetown
D'IVOIRE GHANA
SIERRA
Yamoussoukro
LEONE
Lagos
Lomé
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 José
Clipperton Island
0
N
(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.)
E
ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)
Cayman Is.
SAUDI
EGYPT
Western
Sahara
IM
New
Delhi
KUWAIT
Kuwait
LIBYA
H
Lahore
JORDAN
ALGERIA
Laayoune
(El Aaiún)
M I
D A T
L A
Mexico
IRAN
Chinese line
of control
O
Guadalajara
Baghdad
Jerusalem + Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m)
Cairo
CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)
AFGHANISTAN Islamabad
¯ ¯ ¯
Tokyo
Osaka
H
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 (23˚27')
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
C
E
TURKEY
Athens
Bishkek
KYRGYZSTAN
SE
N
D
I
G
Baku
G
DE
I
OB
M
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
Ürümqi
T'bilisi
·Istanbul
THE FORMER YUGOSLAV
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
GREECE
(IT.)
Sicily
Ceuta (SP.)
R
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
N
(FRANCE)
Lake Ontario
BOS. & HERZ.
M
Lake Balkhash
M
IA
Bay of
Biscay
St. Pierre
and Miquelon
AY
-
A
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
Montréal
S
IN
TA
N
OU
New York
M
Philadelphia
Lake Erie
A
Kharkiv
IS
L A N
D S
AN
)
Chicago
Kiev
SLOVAKIA
(U.S.)
Sakhalin
U
Detroit
Paris
Astana
UKRAINE
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Irkutsk
AP
UNITED
Toronto
BELGIUM
LUX.
Samara
BELARUS
Sea of
Okhotsk
E
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
Y
Island of
Newfoundland
Isle of
Man (U.K.)
60
Y
Dublin
IRELAND
Lake
Winnipeg
Vilnius
RUSSIA
A
Yakutsk
NINE
Edmonton
Vancouver
Seattle
Belfast
I
(J
Labrador
Sea
Baltic Riga LAT.
Sea
LITH.
North
DENMARK
Sea Copenhagen
R
RIDG
(U.K.)
CANADA
St. Petersburg
Tallinn EST.
Rockall
E
TY E A
Stockholm
Helsinki
B
R U S S I A
UN
Oslo
UNITED
FINLAND
Gulf
of
Bothnia
(DEN.)
I
L
ROCK
NDS
SWEDEN
Faroe
Islands
Tórshavn
S
White Sea
URA
Gulf of Alaska
LA
N IS
ICELAND
Reykjavík
Hudson
Bay
60
TIA
ALEU
Denmark
Strait
Nuuk (Godthåb)
NORWAY
MO
Davis
Strait
Great
Slave Lake
Whitehorse
Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)
Sea
RI F
T
Anchorage
Johnston Atoll
Chukchi
Arctic Circle (66˚33')
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 (66˚33')
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
0
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 (66˚33')
Antarctic Circle (66˚33')
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)
b
Ross Ice Shelf
90
60
30
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
a
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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