Physical Map of the World, August 1999

AUSTRALIA Independent state

Bermuda Dependency or area of special sovereignty
Sicily / AZORES Island / island group 150 120 90 60 30 0 30 60 90 120 150 180

Capital ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN FRANZ JOSEF

ARCTIC OCEAN
LAND SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA
Scale 1:35,000,000 Ellesmere
QUEEN ELIZABETH Island
Robinson Projection Longyearbyen
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Greenland Sea Svalbard NOVAYA Kara Sea Laptev Sea
standard parallels 38˚N and 38˚S ISLANDS (NORWAY) ZEMLYA
Banks
Island Barents Sea
Beaufort Sea Baffin Greenland East Siberian Sea Wrangel
(DENMARK) Island
Barrow Victoria Bay
Island Baffin Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)
Norwegian Chukchi
Island Sea
Sea
Arctic Circle (66˚33') Arctic Circle (66˚33')
U. S. NORWAY
Mt. McKinley
Great
Bear Lake Denmark ICELAND
White Sea
S I B E R I A
Davis SWEDEN

TAINS
(highest point in North America, 6194 m) Nuuk (Godthåb) Faroe
+ Strait Reykjavík Islands
Strait Gulf FINLAND
Tórshavn (DEN.) of Yakutsk
Anchorage Great
Slave Lake Bothnia
R U S S I A

UN
Whitehorse Helsinki
Oslo
60 Hudson Stockholm
60

MO
St. Petersburg
Gulf of Alaska Bay Rockall Tallinn EST.
(U.K.) Bering Sea
Baltic - Nizhniy

ROCK
UNITED North Riga LAT. Yekaterinburg
CANADA Labrador
Sea Belfast
DENMARK
Sea Copenhagen
Sea
RUSSIA
LITH.
Vilnius
Moscow
Novgorod
Omsk Novosibirsk Lake Sea of
Minsk Baikal

L
Edmonton Okhotsk

URA
NDS Dublin Isle of
POLAND Samara ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
LA Man (U.K.)
Amsterdam Hamburg BELARUS
TIAN IS Lake IRELAND KINGDOM Warsaw Irkutsk Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (U.S.)

Y
Winnipeg NETH.
ALEU Island of
Berlin Astana Sakhalin
London GERMANY Kiev
Newfoundland Brussels Prague A
Celtic LT
Vancouver Sea Guernsey (U.K.)
BELGIUM Luxembourg CZECH REP. UKRAINE Kharkiv AY
Jersey (U.K.) SLOVAKIA Khabarovsk
LUX.
Gulf of
Paris Bratislava
Vienna KAZAKHSTAN M
TS Ulaanbaatar KURIL
M O U NT A I N S
Lake St. Lawrence LIECH. MOLDOVA
SWITZ. Budapest Chisinau . ISLANDS

)
Seattle Superior Lake FRANCE S
AUSTRIA ¸ Lake Balkhash
Huron Bern L P Ljubljana HUNGARY ROMANIA Sea of Gora El'brus
MONGOLIA
Ottawa Montréal St. Pierre Bay of A SLOVENIA Odesa Azov (highest point in Europe, Aral
Minneapolis Lake Milan SAN Zagreb
CROATIA Belgrade
Bucharest 5633 m) Sea
and Miquelon Biscay
Michigan RT
Toronto (FRANCE) MARINO BOS. & HERZ.
SE occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,
Lake Ontario MONACO Serbia CAU
+ C A SU Caspian DE administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
ITALY Sarajevo Mont. Sofia Black Sea Ürümqi
OB
I Sapporo
NORTH UNITED Detroit
IN
S Boston ANDORRA
Marseille
Corsica
(FR.) VATICAN Podgorica BULGARIA
·Istanbul
GEORGIA
S M
TS.
T'bilisi
Sea
(lowest point in UZBEKISTAN Bishkek G Shenyang
Chicago
Lake Erie
OU
NTA
PORTUGAL
Madrid Barcelona
CITY
Rome ALB.
Tirana
Skopje
THE FORMER YUGOSLAV
Ankara
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
Europe, -28 m)
KYRGYZSTAN
Beijing NORTH KOREA Japan
Sea of NORTH
PACIFIC Denver M New York
Philadelphia SPAIN BALEARIC Sardinia
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Yerevan Baku TURKMENISTAN
Tashkent TAKLA MAKAN
P'yongyang

)
Lisbon GREECE ·Izmir TURKEY Dushanbe
San Francisco STATES CH
IA
N
Washington, D.C. NORTH AZORES
ISLANDS
(SP.)
(IT.)

Athens ¯
Ashgabat TAJIKISTAN DESERT
Tianjin
Seoul JAPAN
PACIFIC
LA Sicily
OCEAN Death Valley
(lowest point in
A PP
A
(PORT.)
Gibraltar(U.K.) Algiers Tunis MALTA
(IT.)
Aleppo
Mashhad
Indian
claim Yellow SOUTH Tokyo
OCEAN
+
North America, -86 m)
ATLANTIC E
Ceuta (SP.)
Melilla TUNISIA
Valletta
Crete
Nicosia
LEB.
SYRIA Tehran
¯ Kabul
CHINA
Sea KOREA
Pusan
-
Osaka Yokohama
Los Angeles Atlanta MADEIRA
Casablanca
(SP.)
Mediterranean Sea (GR.) CYPRUS
Damascus IRAQ Chinese line
Dallas Bermuda
G ISLANDS Rabat Beirut AFGHANISTAN Islamabad
¯ ¯ ¯ of control

Tijuana (U.K.) OCEAN I

D (PORT.)
Tripoli Amman
Baghdad
IRAN H
IM Mt. Everest

NA
Alexandria ISRAEL Lahore
Jerusalem + Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m) (highest point in Asia Chengdu Shanghai
R MOROCCO AL Wuhan

M
D S
JORDAN and the world, 8848 m)
Houston Cairo
30 AY 30

PO
-
CANARY ISLANDS KUWAIT New East China

L A N
AS Chongqing

(JA
(SP.)
ALGERIA

I C
Kuwait Delhi NEPAL BHUTAN

- S
Sea

PA
PAKISTAN +

N
LIBYA Midway

HO
-

IS
Persian -

)
Laayoune Kathmandu

)
THE SAUDI Thimphu Okinawa

AN
BAHRAIN Gulf Islands
(El Aaiún)
EGYPT -

T
Miami OMAN

N
Kanpur

-
Manama

AP
BAHAMAS Doha (U.S.)

O
Gulf of Mexico Western

U
Monterrey Taipei
Abu Dhabi

(J
Riyadh Marcus Island

L A
K
Nassau Sahara ¯
Karachi BANGLADESH U (JAPAN)
Tropic of Cancer (23˚27') Havana QATAR UNITED ARAB R
Y Tropic of Cancer (23˚27')
EMIRATES Muscat
Turks and Milwaukee Deep Red - - Dhaka
ARABIA Calcutta Taiwan

A T
Ahmadabad
MEXICO Caicos Islands (deepest point of the Sea Hong Kong
Honolulu
CUBA
(U.K.) Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m)
British Virgin
S A H A R A D E S E R T Jiddah
KH
ALI OMAN BURMA Hanoi Macau S.A.R. Luzon Strait
HAWAIIAN L
B' A

D -
Guadalajara
Cayman Is. Port-au- DOMINICAN
Islands
(U.K.) RU INDIA LAOS Gulf of
(PORT.)
Philippine Wake Atoll

CH
ISLANDS Prince REPUBLIC Anguilla (U.K.)
MAURITANIA
Mexico (U.K.) +
Mumbai Vientiane Tonkin Hainan Northern
(U.S.)
(U.S.) Nouakchott

IANA TREN
Puebla ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
ISLAS JAMAICA MALI (Bombay) - - Dao
Sea

M I
BELIZE HAITI Santo Puerto Hyderabad Mariana
REVILLAGIGEDO Kingston Navassa ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Rangoon
Belmopan Domingo Rico PARACEL Islands
Johnston Atoll (MEXICO) Island
(U.S.)
(U.S.)
Guadeloupe (FR.) Tombouctou NIGER Khartoum ERITREA
Bay of ISLANDS (U.S.)
CAPE VERDE Sanaa THAILAND Saipan
GUATEMALA HONDURAS DOMINICA
(U.S.)
Tegucigalpa Caribbean Sea
Montserrat
(U.K.) Martinique (FR.)
Dakar
SENEGAL
CHAD Asmara
YEMEN Bengal Bangkok
VIETNAM Manila
Hagåtña
Guatemala Praia Niamey Arabian

AR
ST. VINCENT AND
ST. LUCIA
Banjul BURKINA Bangalore South China (Agana)
San Salvador Aruba
BARBADOS Bamako SUDAN ANDAMAN
PHILIPPINES

M
NICARAGUA (NETH.) THE GRENADINES FASO Lac 'Assal CAMBODIA Guam
EL SALVADOR THE GAMBIA (lowest point in Africa, DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden Chennai ISLANDS
Sea (U.S.)
Managua Neth. Antilles GRENADA Bissau Ouagadougou N'Djamena -155 m) Djibouti Socotra
Sea (Madras) (INDIA)
+ Challenger Deep

PHIL
(NETH.) Port-of-Spain (YEMEN) Phnom Penh Ho Chi Minh City
Maracaibo
GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA LAKSHADWEEP
(world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m) MARSHALL
San José TRINIDAD AND BENIN NIGERIA Addis Andaman
Clipperton Island Caracas Gulf of FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

IPPIN
TOBAGO Conakry Ababa EY
(INDIA) Sea SPRATLY ISLANDS
(FRANCE) CÔTE Abuja Thailand
COSTA RICA Panama Freetown TOGO LL ISLANDS
D'IVOIRE GHANA VA
S

E TR E
PANAMA SIERRA Laccadive Koror Majuro
VENEZUELA Georgetown Yamoussoukro CENTRAL ETHIOPIA Colombo NICOBAR Palikir
E

Kingman Reef (U.S.) Isla del Coco Medellín LEONE Lomé Lagos Sea ISLANDS
Paramaribo AFRICAN REPUBLIC SRI Bandar Seri
Accra
D

Monrovia

NC
GUYANA Porto- (INDIA) PALAU

T
(COSTA RICA)
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.) French Guiana Abidjan CAMEROON SOMALIA Begawan

RI F
LIBERIA Novo LANKA

H
Bangui
N

Isla de (FRANCE) BRUNEI

Malpelo Bogotá SURINAME Cayenne Male Kuala
Cali Malabo Medan Lumpur
A

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Yaoundé MALDIVES Celebes Sea

COLOMBIA M A L A Y S I A

AT
Penedos de Gulf of Guinea UGANDA
Kiritimati

GRE
São Pedro e São Paulo Mogadishu Singapore Tarawa Howland Island (U.S.)
(Christmas Island) SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Kampala
(KIRIBATI) Equator Quito
(BRAZIL)
Equator São Tome Libreville REP. OF KENYA SINGAPORE Equator Baker Island (U.S.)
0 0
Jarvis GALAPAGOS GABON THE DEMOCRATIC Nairobi Yaren NAURU
Island ECUADOR Annobon CONGO RWANDA Kigali District
ISLANDS '
Belem Arquipélago de Lake
(U.S.) Guayaquil Fernando de Noronha (EQUA. GUI.) REPUBLIC Mt. Kilimanjaro K I R I B A T I
(ECUADOR) Manaus Victoria + (highest point in Africa, 5895 m)
(BRAZIL) Brazzaville
Fortaleza
OF THE CONGO
Bujumbura
BURUNDI Victoria British Indian
I N D O N E S I A Bismarck Sea

ANGOLA Kinshasa Ocean Territory Jakarta Java Sea Banda Sea

PAPUA
PE

JA
(Cabinda) Lake
Tanganyika TANZANIA Dar es Salaam (U.K.) NEW GUINEA SOLOMON

V
RU

K I R I B A T I ISLANDS

A
Diego Bandung Surabaya
ÎLES MARQUISES Ascension SEYCHELLES R

T
Luanda Garcia Funafuti
-C

(Fr. Poly.) (St. Helena) E Arafura

PERU NC
BRAZIL Honiara TUVALU Tokelau
HI

Lake H Sea Port (N.Z.)

E
Christmas Island +

MID-INDIAN
Lubumbashi Nyasa Timor Moresby
A

Moroni Glorioso Islands

RIDG
LE

(AUSTL.) (deepest point of the

(FRANCE)
Cocos Indian Ocean, -7258 m) Sea
Lima ANGOLA COMOROS
N

SAMOA

Grea
(Keeling) Islands Ashmore and Wallis and
Salvador Lilongwe
Mayotte Apia
INDIAN Cartier Islands Futuna
T

(AUSTL.)
Coral
D

t
(administered by FRANCE, Gulf of
ZAMBIA Mata-Utu
SOUTH
R

Cook Islands claimed by COMOROS) (AUSTL.) (FRANCE)

Lago Carpentaria Pago Pago
E

Namibe MALAWI
E

(N.Z.) S St. Helena Tromelin Island

Titicaca Brasília Sea
N

Barrier
ST
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (St. Helena) (FRANCE) American
Lusaka
C

La Paz Juan de Nova FIJI Samoa

H

(Fr. Poly.) Island (FR.) VANUATU

Papeete SOUTH PACIFIC ATLANTIC OCEAN (U.S.)

TY E A
SOCIETY BOLIVIA MOZAMBIQUE Re Coral Sea Niue
Harare Antananarivo Port-Vila (N.Z.)
ALT

ISLANDS Belo ef Islands Suva

Mozambique Port

NA
ZIMBABWE

OC
IP

H
(Fr. Poly.) Horizonte (AUSTL.)
ATA C

Martin Vaz
OCEAN Saint-

NC
F r e n c h P o l y n e s i a OCEAN Channel Louis
L AN

(BRAZIL) Denis

MI
NAMIBIA New

RE
NINE
Trindade Bassas Nuku'alofa
MAURITIUS
O

BOTSWANA MADAGASCAR Caledonia

EA

T
da India

B
(FRANCE) (BRAZIL)

GA
TONGA
AMA

Windhoek (FRANCE) Reunion (FRANCE)

N
PARAGUAY Rio de Janeiro KALAHARI (FRANCE)

TO
Tropic of Capricorn (23˚27') Walvis Bay Europa Island Tropic of Capricorn (23˚27') Noumea

N
DESERT (FRANCE)
DESERT

São Paulo

DESER
ÎLES TUBUAI Gaborone Alice Springs

R
(Fr. Poly.) Asunción

ID
Pitcairn Islands Pretoria
Adamstown
(U.K.) Isla San Felíx Maputo
A U S T R A L I A

G
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE) E

M I
(CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio St. Helena Johannesburg Mbabane SOUTH

T
Easter Island (CHILE) Lake Eyre
Norfolk

H
SWAZILAND (lowest point in Brisbane KERMADEC

C
(CHILE) (U.K.) LESOTHO Island

N
Australia, -15 m)
PACIFIC ISLANDS
D - A
Pôrto GREAT VICTORIA + (AUSTL.) E

30
Alegre SOUTH Maseru DESERT (N.Z.) T
R
30
Durban
CHILE +
Córdoba AFRICA Perth OCEAN E
C
Lord Howe D
Cerro Aconcagua
T L A N T I C

A
(highest point in South America, Island M
6962 m) URUGUAY (AUSTL.) R
E
Santiago Cape K
ARCHIPIÉLAGO Buenos Aires Canberra Sydney
Town
JUAN FERNÁNDEZ Montevideo Mount Kosciuszko
(CHILE)
ARGENTINA Great Australian
(highest point in
ANDE

Île Amsterdam Australia, 2229m) + Auckland

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Melbourne
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
Bight NEW
Île Saint-Paul
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Tasman Sea ZEALAND
Gough Island
S

R I

(St. Helena) Tasmania Wellington

+
Peninsula Valdés French Southern and Antarctic Lands
D G

(lowest point in South America, Christchurch

(FRANCE)
PATAGONIA

-40 m)
CHATHAM ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
E

PRINCE EDWARD ÎLES CROZET

Falkland Islands (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) SNARES ISLANDS BOUNTY ISLANDS
ISLANDS
(Islas Malvinas) (N.Z.) (N.Z.)
(SOUTH AFRICA)
(administered by U.K., ÎLES KERGUELEN AUCKLAND ANTIPODES ISLANDS
claimed by ARGENTINA) (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) ISLANDS (N.Z.)
(N.Z.)
Stanley Heard Island and
Bouvet Island Campbell
Punta Arenas McDonald Islands Island
(NORWAY)
(AUSTL.) (N.Z.)
Macquarie

, ,,
South Georgia and the Island
Scotia Sea South Sandwich Islands (AUSTL.)

SOUTHERN OCEAN (administered by U.K.,

claimed by ARGENTINA)
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Antarctic Circle (66˚33') Antarctic Circle (66˚33')
Amery Ice
Shelf August 1999
Bellingshausen Sea

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Weddell Sea a
Serbia and Montenegro have asserted the formation
Amundsen Sea of a joint independent state, but this entity has
not been formally recognized as a state by the
Ross Sea Ross Sea United States.

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b
Vinson Massif
+ Ronne Ice Shelf
Antarctica b Nineteen of 26 Antarctic consultative nations
have made no claims to Antarctic territory
Ross (highest point in Antarctica, 5140 m)
Ross Ice Shelf (although Russia and the United States have
Ice Shelf reserved the right to do so) and they do not
recognize the claims of the other nations.

150 120 90 60 30 0 30 60 90 120 150 180

Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

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