Physical Map of the World, April 2000

AUSTRALIA Bermuda Sicily / AZORES Independent state Dependency or area of special sovereignty Island / island group Capital
Scale 1:35,000,000 Robinson Projection standard parallels 38N and 38S
150
120

90

60

30

30

60

90

120

150

180

ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ellesmere Island

ARCTIC OCEAN
Greenland Sea
Baffin Bay
Baffin Island Longyearbyen Svalbard
(NORWAY)

FRANZ JOSEF LAND

SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA

ARCTIC OCEAN
Laptev Sea
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Beaufort Sea
Barrow

Banks Island Victoria Island

ISLANDS

Greenland
(DENMARK)
Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Barents Sea

NOVAYA ZEMLYA

Kara Sea

East Siberian Sea

Wrangel Island

Norwegian Sea
Arctic Circle (6633') NORWAY
White Sea

Chukchi

Sea

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

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nuuk (Godthb)
Faroe Islands
(DEN.)

Reykjavk Trshavn
Rockall
(U.K.)

Gulf of Alaska

Tallinn EST.
Baltic Riga LAT. Sea LITH.

MO

60

Hudson Bay
Labrador Sea

Oslo

UN

Anchorage

Whitehorse

Great Slave Lake

Gulf of Bothnia

FINLAND
Helsinki
St. Petersburg Nizhniy Novgorod

TAINS

Great Bear Lake

Davis Strait

Denmark Strait

ICELAND

SWEDEN

A
Yakutsk 60

Stockholm

R U S S I A
Yekaterinburg
L

CANADA
Edmonton

UNITED
Belfast

North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen

Amsterdam
NETH. Hamburg

Bering Sea
Omsk Novosibirsk Irkutsk Sakhalin
A
LT

TIA ALEU

LAN N IS

DS

Lake Winnipeg

Dublin IRELAND Island of Newfoundland

Lake Huron Ottawa
Toronto Detroit
Gulf of St. Lawrence

Isle of Man (U.K.)

URA

Vancouver Seattle

ROCK
Y

RUSSIA

Vilnius

Moscow Minsk

Lake Baikal

KINGDOM
London

Celtic Sea

Brussels Paris
BELGIUM LUX.

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

Berlin GERMANY Prague Luxembourg CZECH REP.

LIECH.

POLAND Warsaw

BELARUS Kiev

Samara

Sea of Okhotsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
(U.S.)

Astana
AY

Lake Superior
Minneapolis

Lake Michigan

Montral

St. Pierre and Miquelon

(FRANCE)

Bay of Biscay

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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

UNITED
Denver

Lake Ontario
Boston

Bratislava MOLDOVA SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chisinau FRANCE S HUNGARY Bern L P Ljubljana ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA A CROATIA Belgrade Zagreb Milan SAN Bucharest Vienna
)

SLOVAKIA

UKRAINE

Kharkiv

KAZAKHSTAN
Gora El'brus (highest point in Europe, 5633 m)
CAU + C AS

Sea of Azov

Lake Balkhash

Ulaanbaatar
.

Khabarovsk

Aral Sea
Caspian Sea
(lowest point in Europe, -28 m)

MONGOLIA
rmqi

KURIL ISLANDS

M O U NT A I N S

MONACO

MARINO
VATICAN CITY

BOS. & HERZ.

Chicago

Lake Erie
I CH LA
AN

STATES
A

NS AI NT U O New York M Philadelphia

ANDORRA

Marseille Barcelona
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)

Corsica
(FR.)

ITALY Sarajevo

Serbia

Washington, D.C.

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

I C
T

PORTUGAL Lisbon
AZORES (PORT.) Ceuta (SP.)

Madrid

SPAIN

Podgorica ALB. Rome Tirana

Mont.

Sofia

Skopje

BULGARIA

Black Sea
Istanbul

GEORGIA

T'bilisi

US MT S.

UZBEKISTAN

Sardinia
(IT.)

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Ankara

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN Kabul

TAKLA MAKAN DESERT
Indian claim

I OB

DE

SE

RT
Sapporo Shenyang

occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

GREECE
Sicily

Izmir

TURKEY
Nicosia
Aleppo
LEB.

Yerevan

Baku

TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat

Tashkent

Beijing
Tianjin

NORTH KOREA Japan P'yongyang

)

Sea of

NORTH
JAPAN
Tokyo
Yokohama

A PP

Athens
Crete
(GR.)

Gibraltar(U.K.) Melilla
(SP.)

Algiers

Los Angeles Tijuana

30

Dallas

Atlanta Bermuda
(U.K.)

D
I
R

MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)

Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA Tripoli

(IT.)

Casablanca

Rabat

Mediterranean Sea

CYPRUS

SYRIA
Damascus Amman

Beirut

IRAQ

Tehran

Mashhad

ALGERIA
Laayoune (El Aain)

M I D A T L A

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Honolulu

Havana

QATAR
LI

MEXICO
Guadalajara

Johnston Atoll
(U.S.)

BELIZE Belmopan

Kingston

Navassa Island
(U.S.)

HAITI

GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua

Clipperton Island
(FRANCE)

Caribbean Sea
(NETH.)

(U.S.) Montserrat
(U.K.)

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.) DOMINICA

CAPE VERDE

Tombouctou

San Jos COSTA RICA Panama PANAMA

Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA) Isla de Malpelo

Maracaibo

Port-of-Spain

N'Djamena

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

DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden

Djibouti

Caracas

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

NIGERIA
Abuja

(YEMEN)

Socotra

Chennai (Madras)
LAKSHADWEEP
(INDIA)

CAMBODIA

Addis Ababa
VA

EY LL

Andaman Sea Laccadive Sea

Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand

Ho Chi Minh City

SPRATLY ISLANDS

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

Aruba

Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA

Praia

Kingman Reef (U.S.) Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

Medelln

VENEZUELA

Cali

Bogot

Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne

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
EQUATORIAL GUINEA

SUDAN

Bangalore

ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)

PHILIPPINES
EN NE TR I P PI PHIL

(Agana) Guam

RI

Dakar

NIGER

SENEGAL

Niamey

CHAD

Khartoum

ERITREA

Asmara

Sanaa

Bay of

Rangoon

YEMEN

Arabian Sea

Bengal

THAILAND
Bangkok

PARACEL ISLANDS

(U.S.)

VIETNAM

South China Sea

Manila

Saipan Hagta

ANA TRE

(U.S.)

ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)

Puebla

JAMAICA

Santo Puerto Domingo Rico

Nouakchott

MALI

Mumbai (Bombay)

- Hyderabad

Sea

Northern Mariana Islands

NC

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

CUBA
Cayman Is.
(U.K.)

Mexico

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

S A H A R A
MAURITANIA

D E S E R T

Red Sea

Jiddah

ARABIA
L B' A RU A KH

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Muscat

Karachi - Ahmadabad

BANGLADESH
Calcutta

Dhaka

(J

Monterrey

Gulf of Mexico

AP

Miami

THE BAHAMAS Nassau

LIBYA

Kuwait

Western Sahara

EGYPT

SAUDI

Manama Riyadh

Doha Abu Dhabi

BAHRAIN

Persian Gulf

PAKISTAN
OMAN

NEPAL
Kanpur

AS
+

BHUTAN

Chongqing

East China Sea

Okinawa

Houston

CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)

Cairo

KUWAIT

New Delhi

AY

IS L A N D S AN )

MOROCCO

Alexandria

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

ISRAEL

Baghdad

JORDAN

IRAN

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad
Lahore

Chinese line of control

CHINA
IM
Mt. Everest

Yellow Sea

Seoul SOUTH KOREA

Pusan

Osaka

PACIFIC OCEAN
30

NA

AL

(highest point in Asia and the world, 8848 m)

Chengdu

Wuhan

Shanghai

M PO
(JA

H - S

N PA

Kathmandu

Thimphu
Taipei

Midway Islands Marcus Island

(JAPAN) (U.S.)

OT

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

OMAN

INDIA

BURMA

Hanoi

LAOS

Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.

S.A.R.

Taiwan

Vientiane Tonkin

Gulf of

Hainan Dao

Philippine

Wake Island
(U.S.)

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Koror Palikir

MARSHALL ISLANDS
Majuro

CAMEROON Yaound

RIF T

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Bangui
UGANDA Kampala
GRE AT

ETHIOPIA SOMALIA
MALDIVES
Mogadishu

Colombo SRI LANKA

NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)

Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI) Jarvis Island

(U.S.)

COLOMBIA
Equator
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(ECUADOR)

Malabo

Male

Medan

Penedos de So Pedro e So Paulo

(BRAZIL)

Gulf of Guinea

Kuala Lumpur M A

Bandar Seri Begawan

BRUNEI

PALAU

CH

Celebes Sea
Tarawa

Quito ECUADOR
Guayaquil Manaus Belm Fortaleza Arquiplago de Fernando de Noronha
(BRAZIL)

Equator

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tome

(EQUA. GUI.)

Annobon

Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO Brazzaville

ANGOLA
(Cabinda)

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

KENYA
Nairobi
+

Singapore SINGAPORE

Equator
Yaren NAURU District

Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0

RWANDA Kigali

Kinshasa

OF THE CONGO

Lake Victoria Bujumbura

BURUNDI

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

Victoria Dar es Salaam

K I R I B A T I

Lake Tanganyika

TANZANIA
Lake Nyasa

British Indian Ocean Territory

(U.K.)

I
JA

N
Jakarta
Bandung

Java Sea

S
Banda Sea

I
Arafura Sea

K I R I B A T I

Bismarck Sea

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Port Moresby
t Grea

PE
RU

LES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

PERU
A
Lima
T
R

Cook Islands
(N.Z.)

E
S

Salvador

ANGOLA

TY E A

SOCIETY ISLANDS
(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)

NINE

Tropic of Capricorn
LES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)

(2327')
Isla San Felx (CHILE)

PARAGUAY
Asuncin

Rio de Janeiro So Paulo

Walvis Bay

Windhoek
DESER

KALAHARI DESERT

(FRANCE)

Reunion
(FRANCE)

Europa Island
(FRANCE)

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Noumea

Adamstown

Pitcairn Islands (U.K.) Easter Island (CHILE)

Gaborone
Johannesburg

Pretoria

Isla Sala y Gmez (CHILE)

Maputo

30

Prto Alegre

GREAT VICTORIA DESERT

(AUSTL.)

Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)

(U.K.)

LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru

Brisbane

St. Helena

Mbabane SWAZILAND
Durban

A U S T R A L I A
Lake Eyre (lowest point in Australia, -15 m) +

Alice Springs

Norfolk Island

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)

E

ARCHIPILAGO JUAN FERNNDEZ (CHILE)

Santiago

Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA

Montevideo

Cape Town (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Canberra
le Amsterdam

Sydney Auckland

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena) Gough Island

(St. Helena)

le Saint-Paul

Great Australian Bight

Melbourne

Mount Kosciuszko (highest point in Australia, 2229m) +

Tasman Sea
Tasmania

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
Christchurch CHATHAM ISLANDS (N.Z.)

PATAGONIA

+ Peninsula Valds (lowest point in South America, -40 m)

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

(FRANCE)

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

PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS (SOUTH AFRICA)

LES CROZET (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) LES KERGUELEN (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.) AUCKLAND ISLANDS (N.Z.)

SNARES ISLANDS (N.Z.)

BOUNTY ISLANDS (N.Z.) ANTIPODES ISLANDS (N.Z.)

Stanley
Punta Arenas

Bouvet Island (NORWAY)

Scotia Sea
60

Drake Passage

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA) SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS

Macquarie Island (AUSTL.)

Campbell Island (N.Z.)

60

Antarctic Circle (6633')

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Bellingshausen Sea

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Amery Ice Shelf

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (6633')

April 2000
a

Amundsen Sea Ross Sea

Ross Ice Shelf
150

Weddell Sea
Ross Sea

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. 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.

+ Vinson Massif (highest point in Antarctica, 5140 m)

Ronne Ice Shelf

Antarctica
60

b Nineteen

Ross Ice Shelf

60

120

90

30

30

90

120

150

180

Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

URUGUAY

(AUSTL.)

CHILE

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

AFRICA

30

Perth

Lord Howe Island

802701AI (R00349) 4-00

TO NG A

(FRANCE)

(BRAZIL)

BOTSWANA

MADAGASCAR

TONGA

TR

F r e n c h

P o l y n e s i

SOUTH PACIFIC a OCEAN

Lago Titicaca La Paz

IP ALT

BOLIVIA
Belo Horizonte Trindade Martin Vaz
(BRAZIL)

ATLANTIC OCEAN

Lusaka Harare

ST

Braslia

SOUTH

(St. Helena)

St. Helena

Namibe

ZAMBIA

Lilongwe
MALAWI

(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)

Mayotte

COMOROS

(FRANCE)

RIDG

BRAZIL

(St. Helena)

Ascension

Luanda
Lubumbashi

SEYCHELLES
MID-INDIAN
Moroni
Glorioso Islands

Diego Garcia

Surabaya East Timor

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

SOLOMON ISLANDS
Honiara

Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands

(AUSTL.) (AUSTL.)

NC

TUVALU
Wallis and Futuna

Funafuti

NAMIBIA

Bassas da India

New Caledonia (FRANCE)

Nuku'alofa

EN CH

-C
HI

Tromelin Island
(FRANCE)

INDIAN OCEAN
N

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

Timor Sea

Tokelau (N.Z.)

LE

Gulf of Carpentaria

Juan de Nova Island (FR.)

Coral Sea
Coral Sea Islands
(AUSTL.)

SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago

American Samoa Niue (N.Z.)
(U.S.)

N
D
N
C

Barrier

ZIMBABWE

MOZAMBIQUE

VANUATU
Port-Vila

FIJI
Suva

Mozambique Channel

Antananarivo SaintDenis

Port Louis MAURITIUS

Re ef

NA

OC

AMA ATA C

O L AN

IB

EA

DESERT

ID

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

ANDE

D G R I
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