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Physical Map of the World, April 2000 Physical Map of the World, April 2000 AUSTRALIA Independent state Bermuda Dependency or area of special sovereignty AZORES Sicily / 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 Island Robinson Projection QUEEN ELIZABETH Longyearbyen Kara Sea NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS standard parallels 38°N and 38°S Greenland Sea Svalbard NOVAYA Laptev Sea Banks ISLANDS (NORWAY) ZEMLYA Island Baffin Barents Sea Beaufort Sea Greenland East Siberian Sea Wrangel (DENMARK) Island Barrow Victoria Bay Island Baffin Jan Mayen Norwegian Chukchi (NORWAY) Island Sea Sea Arctic Circle (66°33') Arctic Circle (66°33') U. S. Great NORWAY White Sea Mt. McKinley Bear Lake Denmark ICELAND S I B E R I A (highest point in North America, 6194 m) Davis SWEDEN Faroe S + Nuuk (Godthåb) Strait Reykjavík N Islands Strait Gulf I FINLAND Yakutsk (DEN.) A Tórshavn of Anchorage Great T Bothnia Whitehorse Slave Lake N Helsinki R U S S I A Oslo U 60 60 Hudson O St. Petersburg Stockholm Bay Tallinn M Gulf of Alaska Rockall EST. Bering Sea R (U.K.) Baltic Nizhniy - Yekaterinburg O UNITED North Riga LAT. Novgorod Labrador DENMARK Sea LITH. Moscow C C A N A D A Sea Novosibirsk Lake Sea Belfast Copenhagen RUSSIA Vilnius Omsk Sea of Baikal K Minsk L Edmonton Okhotsk A Isle of Y Dublin Samara ALEUTIAN ISLANDS S Man (U.K.) R ND Hamburg POLAND LA Amsterdam BELARUS S Lake U Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (U.S.) I IRELAND Irkutsk IAN Warsaw UT Winnipeg KINGDOM NETH. LE Berlin Astana Sakhalin A Island of London Kiev Brussels GERMANY A M Newfoundland Prague Celtic L T Vancouver Guernsey (U.K.) BELGIUM Luxembourg CZECH REP. U K R A I N E A Sea Jersey (U.K.) Kharkiv Y O LUX. SLOVAKIA M Khabarovsk Gulf of T Paris LIECH. Vienna Bratislava MOLDOVA K A Z A K H S T A N S Ulaanbaatar KURIL St. Lawrence ) U Lake . SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chi s¸inau Lake Balkhash ISLANDS Seattle Superior Lake FRANCE N P S Ljubljana HUNGARY Gora El'brus Huron Bern L Sea of A SLOVENIA ROMANIA Montréal Odesa Azov (highest point in Europe, Aral M O N G O L I A T Ottawa St. Pierre Bay of Minneapolis Lake CROATIA Belgrade 5633 m) Sea and Miquelon Biscay Milan Zagreb Bucharest A Michigan SAN Toronto (FRANCE) MARINO BOS. & HERZ. R T occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, MONACO Serbia CA E I Lake Ontario UCA E S administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN Sarajevo + SU Caspian Ürümqi D Sapporo N Black Sea S I Marseille ITALY Mont. Sofia MT Sea B Detroit Boston Corsica GEORGIA S. UZBEKISTAN G O Podgorica BULGARIA (lowest point in ANDORRA VATICAN Bishkek Shenyang N O R T H S (FR.) T'bilisi U N I T E D CITY · Europe, -28 m) Chicago S ALB. Skopje Istanbul N Rome KYRGYZSTAN Sea of Lake Erie AI Madrid Barcelona ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN N O R T H T Tirana THE FORMER YUGOSLAV Beijing Denver N New York PORTUGAL REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Ankara NORTH KOREA Japan Tashkent U ) O Philadelphia BALEARIC Sardinia Yerevan Baku TURKMENISTAN TAKLA MAKAN P A C I F I C M SPAIN P'yongyang Lisbon ISLANDS (IT.) · GREECE Izmir T U R K E Y Dushanbe Tianjin N (SP.) Ashgabat DESERT IA Washington, D.C. AZORES TAJIKISTAN P A C I F I C San Francisco H N O R T H Athens ¯ Seoul S T A T E S C (PORT.) Sicily JAPAN Death Valley LA PA (IT.) Indian O C E A N (lowest point in P Gibraltar (U.K.) Algiers MALTA Aleppo Yellow SOUTH Tokyo A Tunis Mashhad claim +North America, -86 m) Ceuta (SP.) Valletta Nicosia KOREA - Tehra ¯n Sea Osaka O C E A N A T L A N T I C Melilla TUNISIA Crete SYRIA Kabul Yokohama (SP.) CYPRUS LEB. Pusan Atlanta MADEIRA (GR.) Los Angeles Casablanca Mediterranean Sea Damascus IRAQ Chinese line C H I N A ISLANDS Rabat Beirut AFGHANISTAN of control Dallas Bermuda (PORT.) Isla ¯ma ¯ba ¯d Tijuana (U.K.) Baghdad N Amman H O C E A N Tripoli ISRAEL Mt. Everest A Alexandria Lahore E + I R A N I Shanghai Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m) M (highest point in Asia Chengdu M Jerusalem Wuhan S G A and the world, 8848 m) P MOROCCO JORDAN Houston Cairo L D O - 30 D A 30 CANARY ISLANDS ( Y N - KUWAIT New J I A Chongqing East China A (SP.) S S A Kuwait P BHUTAN A H R Delhi NEPAL A L G E R I A Sea L N + O PAKISTAN ) S T Midway ) Laayoune Persian - - I L I B Y A Kathmandu O THE C BAHRAIN Gulf Thimphu Okinawa N (El Aaiún) A Islands SAUDI OMAN - - Miami P I E G Y P T Kanpur (U.S.) BAHAMAS Manama Doha U A Monterrey Gulf of Mexico Western Taipei Y J T Abu Dhabi ( Marcus Island Riyadh K Nassau Sahara Kar a¯chi BANGLADESH U (JAPAN) Tropic of Cancer (23°27') N QATAR Y Tropic of Cancer (23°27') Havana UNITED ARAB R A Muscat Turks and Milwaukee Deep Red EMIRATES Ahmada-ba-d Calcutta Dhaka Taiwan Caicos Islands (deepest point of the L MEXICO Sea ARABIA Hong Kong (U.K.) Jiddah Honolulu T Hanoi S A H A R A D E S E R T I S.A.R. CUBA British Virgin L OMAN BURMA Macau Luzon Strait KHA HAWAIIAN Islands A L S.A.R. Guadalajara DOMINICAN ' A (U.K.) UB LAOS Wake Island Cayman Is. Port-au- Anguilla (U.K.) - R I N D I A Gulf of Philippine ISLANDS (U.K.) REPUBLIC + (U.S.) Mexico Prince MAURITANIA Tonkin Hainan Vientiane Mumbai Northern H ST. KITTS AND NEVIS (U.S.) Puebla D Nouakchott Dao C ISLAS JAMAICA - - M A L I (Bombay) Hyderabad Mariana Santo I N Sea REVILLAGIGEDO BELIZE HAITI Puerto ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Kingston Navassa Rangoon E Islands Island Domingo PARACEL R (MEXICO) Belmopan Rico Guadeloupe (FR.) (U.S.) M T Tombouctou Bay of (U.S.) Johnston Atoll (U.S.) N I G E R ERITREA ISLANDS Sanaa CAPE VERDE A (U.S.) GUATEMALA Montserrat DOMINICA Khartoum THAILAND Saipan HONDURAS N Dakar Asmara VIETNAM Manila (U.K.) CHAD A Tegucigalpa Martinique (FR.) Bengal I Caribbean Sea SENEGAL YEMEN Bangkok Hagåtña Guatemala ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA Praia Niamey R Banjul BURKINA Arabian Bangalore South China (Agana) A San Salvador Aruba THE GRENADINES ANDAMAN BARBADOS Bamako M NICARAGUA (NETH.) FASO S U D A N Lac 'Assal ISLANDS CAMBODIA PHILIPPINES Guam EL SALVADOR Neth. Antilles THE GAMBIA (lowest point in Africa, Gulf of Aden Chennai (NETH.) DJIBOUTI (INDIA) Sea (U.S.) Managua GRENADA Bissau Ouagadougou -155 m) Djibouti Socotra (Madras) P + Challenger Deep N'Djamena (YEMEN) Sea H Maracaibo Port-of-Spain Phnom Penh Ho Chi Minh City I (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m) GUINEA L MARSHALL GUINEA-BISSAU LAKSHADWEEP I San José TRINIDAD AND BENIN Addis Andaman P NIGERIA P Clipperton Island Caracas Gulf of TOBAGO Conakry (INDIA) I FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA Ababa Sea N (FRANCE) Thailand SPRATLY ISLANDS COSTA RICA CÔTE TOGO Abuja E Freetown ISLANDS Panama T D'IVOIRE GHANA Y R E E PANAMA SIERRA L Laccadive Koror S Georgetown Colombo N Palikir Majuro Yamoussoukro CENTRAL ETHILOPIA NICOBAR VENEZUELA C Kingman Reef (U.S.) Medellín LEONE Lagos A Isla del Coco E Lomé V Sea ISLANDS H Paramaribo Bandar Seri SRI (COSTA RICA) Monrovia Accra AFRICAN REPUBLIC (INDIA) Palmyra Atoll (U.S.) D GUYANA Abidjan Porto- PALAU French Guiana CAMEROON Begawan LIBERIA SOMALIA LANKA Isla de (FRANCE) Novo T N Bangui F BRUNEI Cayenne I Male Kuala Malpelo Bogotá SURINAME R Cali Malabo Medan A Lumpur Celebes Sea EQUATORIAL GUINEA Yaoundé MALDIVES M A L A Y S I A COLOMBIA Penedos de T Kiritimati Gulf of Guinea UGANDA A São Pedro e São Paulo E Tarawa Howland Island (U.S.) (Christmas Island) SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE R Mogadishu Singapore Kampala G (BRAZIL) (KIRIBATI) Equator Quito Equator Libreville REP. OF KENYA SINGAPORE Equator Baker Island (U.S.) 0 São Tome 0 THE Jarvis GALAPAGOS GABON DEMOCRATIC Nairobi Yaren NAURU Island ECUADOR CONGO Kigali ISLANDS Belém Arquipélago de Annobon RWANDA Lake District (U.S.) Guayaquil (EQUA. GUI.) Mt. Kilimanjaro K I R I B A T I (ECUADOR) Manaus Fernando de Noronha REPUBLIC Victoria (highest point in Africa, 5895 m) (BRAZIL) + Brazzaville Bujumbura Fortaleza Bismarck Sea BURUNDI Victoria British Indian I N D O N E S I A OF THE CONGO P Kinshasa J PAPUA ANGOLA Ocean Territory A Java Sea E (Cabinda) Lake Jakarta Banda Sea (U.K.) V R Tanganyika Dar es Salaam A NEW GUINEA SOLOMON TANZANIA U T - Diego K I R I B A T I R Bandung Surabaya ISLANDS C E ÎLES MARQUISES Ascension SEYCHELLES Garcia H N Funafuti Luanda (St. Helena) C (Fr. Poly.) M I H Arafura Tokelau L PERU East Timor TUVALU Honiara E A Lake I Christmas Island + Port (N.Z.) Sea B R A Z I L Lubumbashi D Nyasa Glorioso Islands (AUSTL.) Timor Moresby Moroni (deepest point of the N (FRANCE) - T I Cocos Indian Ocean, -7258 m) Sea G R N L ima D ANGOLA COMOROS r SAMOA E E (Keeling) Islands Ashmore and e Wallis and Mayotte D a N Apia Salvador t (administered by FRANCE, G (AUSTL.) Cartier Islands Futuna Lilongwe C E I Gulf of Coral H ZAMBIA claimed by COMOROS) Mata-Utu Cook Islands A D (AUSTL.) S Carpentaria (FRANCE) Lago MALAWI I N D I A N I B Pago Pago S O U T H Namibe Tromelin Island St.
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