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MAP-Physical World.Pdf Physical Map of the World, June 2010 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 Alert FRANZ JOSEF ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN LAND SEVERNAYA ARCTIC OCEAN ZEMLYA Ellesmere Molloy Deep Longyearbyen QUEEN ELIZABETH Island Qaanaaq (Thule) (deepest point of the Arctic Ocean, -5607 m) NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS Scale 1:35,000,000 Svalbard NOVAYA Kara Sea ISLANDS Greenland Sea ZEMLYA Laptev Sea Robinson Projection Banks (NORWAY) Barents Sea Island Resolute East Siberian Sea standard parallels 38°N and 38°S Pond Inlet Baffin Greenland Wrangel Beaufort Sea (DENMARK) Island Barrow Victoria Bay Tiksi Island Baffin Jan Mayen Norwegian Pevek Chukchi Island (NORWAY) Noril'sk Sea Murmansk Cherskiy Sea Arctic Circle (66°33') Arctic Circle (66°33') NORWAY Nuuk White Sea Fairbanks Great S Anadyr' ICELAND Nome U. S. (Godthåb) S I B E R I A Provideniya Bear Lake SWEDEN N Mt. McKinley Iqaluit Denmark Arkhangel'sk I Davis Faroe (highest point in Strait Reykjavík A Islands FINLAND Lake North America, 6194 m) Strait Gulf T Yakutsk (DEN.) Ladoga R U S S I A Anchorage of Lake N Tórshavn Whitehorse Great Bothnia Onega U Slave Lake Hudson Oslo Helsinki O Magadan 60 60 Saint Petersburg Bay Stockholm Tallinn M Gulf of Alaska Churchill Rockall EST. Perm' Juneau R Baltic Yaroslavl' Bering Sea Kuujjuaq Labrador (U.K.) Nizhniy Tyumen' Fort McMurray Sea Riga¯ Izhevsk O North LAT. Novgorod Tomsk Sea Glasgow DENMARK Moscow Kazan' Yekaterinburg Krasnoyarsk LITH. Sea Copenhagen RUSSIA Chelyabinsk Omsk Novosibirsk Lake Prince C Belfast Vilnius Ufa L Sea of C A N A D A UNITED Ul'yanovsk Baikal George Happy Valley- Minsk A S Leeds D K Isle of Hamburg Barnaul N Goose Bay Dublin Samara R Okhotsk LA Edmonton Man IS (U.K.) BELARUS N Lake IRELAND KINGDOM Amsterdam Berlin Warsaw U Petropavlovsk- U.S. UTIA Y Saskatoon . Irkutsk Chita ALE Winnipeg Birmingham Lódz Homyel Voronezh Saratov Orenburg Kamchatskiy NETH. Astana Sakhalin A S Island of Brussels Cologne POLAND L E D Calgary London Kyiv A U T I L A N Winnipeg Lille GERMANY Prague Kraków Qaraghandy L A N I S Newfoundland L'viv T Celtic BELGIUM LUX. (Karaganda) (U.K.) Frankfurt A Vancouver Guernsey CZECH REP. Kharkiv Sea Jersey (U.K.) Luxembourg U K R A I N E Volgograd Y SLOVAKIA Khabarovsk Munich M M Gulf of Paris Vienna Bratislava Donets'k K A Z A K H S T A N T Ulaanbaatar KURIL LIECH. MOLDOVA Lake St. Lawrence ( S Seattle Lake AUSTRIA Budapest Chis¸inau Rostov Atyraü . ISLANDS Québec FRANCE SLOVENIA Aral Lake Balkhash O Superior Bern HUNGARY Odesa Huron SWITZ. S Astrakhan' Lyon L P Ljubljana ROMANIA Sea of Gora El'brus Sea M O N G O L I A Harbin Montréal St. Pierre A Milan Azov and Miquelon Bay of CROATIA Belgrade (highest point in Portland U Minneapolis Lake Ottawa Bordeaux Turin Zagreb SAN BOS. & Bucharest Europe, 5633 m) Aqtaü Michigan (FRANCE) Biscay MARINO Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, Toronto Halifax Toulouse MONACO Genoa HER. SERBIA C (Aktau) Ürümqi Changchun Jilin N Lake Ontario AUC Almaty administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN Milwaukee Sarajevo ASU Vladivostok Sapporo Marseille ITALY Pristina Sofia Black Sea S Caspian Bilbao M Detroit Buffalo S GEORGIA TS Sea Shymkent G O B I D E S E R T T Boston Corsica Podgorica KOS. Chicago IN ANDORRA VATICAN BULGARIA (lowest point in Bishkek Shenyang TA (FR.) CITY MONT. Skopje Tbilisi N O R T H Lake N Providence Rome Europe, -28 m) Tashkent A Porto Tirana Istanbul KYRGYZSTAN Salt Lake City U N I T E D Cleveland U Barcelona MACEDONIA Baotou Erie O New York Madrid ALB. ARMENIA Baku Beijing Naples NORTH KOREA N O R T H Denver Indianapolis Pittsburgh M Ankara UZBEKISTAN Sea of I Philadelphia PORTUGAL Valencia Bursa AZERBAIJAN TAKLA MAKAN Datong Sardinia Kashi Kansas City Saint BALEARIC Yerevan N N Cincinnati Baltimore SPAIN (IT.) GREECE . TURKMENISTAN Tianjin Pyongyang P A C I F I C Sacramento Louis N N O R T H ISLANDS Izmir T U R K E Y Japan IA (SP.) Palermo Dushanbe DESERT Shijiazhuang Dalian Death Valley H Washington DC Lisbon Konya Ashgabat S San Francisco S (lowest point in C AZORES Sevilla Tabriz¯ TAJIKISTAN Yantai Seoul P A C I F I C A Athens Gaziantep Taiyuan JAPAN L Málaga Algiers Sicily Adana Zibo North America, -86 m) S T A T E S A (PORT.) (IT.) Mosul SOUTH PP Norfolk Mashhad Indian Lanzhou Jinan A A T L A N T I C Gibraltar (U.K.) Tunis MALTA 1972 KOREA Tokyo O C E A N Las Vegas Nashville Ceuta (SP.) Constantine Valletta Aleppo Tehran claim Qingdao Charlotte Oran Nicosia Arbil Line of Control Yellow Pusan Nagoya Oklahoma City E Melilla TUNISIA SYRIA Qom Kabul Zhengzhou Hiroshima Yokohama O C E A N (SP.) Crete Hera¯t Sea Los Angeles MADEIRA Rabat (GR.) CYPRUS Beirut Pesha¯war Line of O¯ saka Atlanta G IRAQ C H I N A Phoenix ISLANDS Casablanca Fès Mediterranean Sea Damascus Kermanshah Actual Xi'an Bermuda D LEBANON Control Fukuoka San Diego Dallas O C E A N (PORT.) Tripoli Es¸faha¯n AFGHANISTAN Islamabad (U.K.) I Baghdad Tel Aviv-Yafo H Mt. 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