Physical Map of the World, August 2013 he Association of Petroleum 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 Greenland East Siberian Sea standard parallels 38°N and 38°S Beaufort Sea Pond Inlet Baffin Wrangel (DENMARK) Island Barrow Victoria Bay Tiksi Surveying & Geomatics (APSG) Baffin Jan Mayen Pevek Island Norwegian 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 Lake C RUSSIA Chelyabinsk Omsk Novosibirsk Prince Vilnius Ufa L Sea of C A N A D A Belfast UNITED Ul'yanovsk Baikal George Happy Valley- Minsk A Leeds DS K Isle of Hamburg chapter in Houston, Texas holds a N Goose Bay Dublin R Barnaul Okhotsk Samara LA Edmonton Man IS (U.K.) BELARUS N Lake IRELAND KINGDOM Amsterdam Berlin U U.S. TIA Y Saskatoon Warsaw. Irkutsk Chita Petropavlovsk- LEU Winnipeg Birmingham Lódz Homyel Voronezh Saratov Orenburg Kamchatskiy A 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 Celtic L'viv T BELGIUM LUX. (Karaganda) Guernsey(U.K.) Frankfurt A Vancouver Sea Luxembourg CZECH REP. U K R A I N E Kharkiv Y Jersey(U.K.) SLOVAKIA Volgograd Khabarovsk Munich M M Gulf of Paris Vienna Bratislava Donets'k K A Z A K H S T A N T Ulaanbaatar LIECH. MOLDOVA KURIL Lake St. Lawrence ( S AUSTRIA Budapest Chis¸inau Rostov Atyraü . Seattle Lake Lake Balkhash ISLANDS Superior Québec FRANCE SLOVENIA Odesa Aral O Bern S HUNGARY Astrakhan' Huron SWITZ. P Ljubljana Sea of Gora El'brus Sea M O N G O L I A Montréal St. Pierre Lyon L ROMANIA Azov Harbin A Milan CROATIA Bay of (highest point in Portland U Minneapolis Lake Ottawa and Miquelon Bordeaux Zagreb Belgrade Turin SAN BOS. & Bucharest Europe, 5633 m) Michigan (FRANCE) Biscay Aqtaü Occupied by SOVIET UNION in 1945, MARINO Toronto Halifax Toulouse Genoa HER. SERBIA C Ürümqi E S E R T Changchun Jilin N Lake Ontario MONACO AU (Aktau) D administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN Milwaukee Sarajevo CAS Almaty I Vladivostok Sapporo Pristina Sofia Black Sea US Caspian B Bilbao Marseille ITALY M Detroit Buffalo S GEORGIA TS Sea Shymkent G O 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 Salt Lake City A U Porto Tirana MACEDONIA Istanbul KYRGYZSTAN T U N I T E D Cleveland Erie O New York Barcelona ALB. Baku Baotou Madrid ARMENIA Naples Beijing NORTH KOREA N O R T H Denver Indianapolis M Ankara UZBEKISTAN Sea of I Pittsburgh PORTUGAL TAKLA MAKAN AZERBAIJAN Philadelphia Valencia Kansas City Saint Sardinia Bursa Yerevan Kashi Datong N N Cincinnati Baltimore SPAIN BALEARIC (IT.) GREECE . TURKMENISTAN Tianjin Pyongyang P A C I F I C Sacramento Louis N N O R T H ISLANDS T U R K E Y Japan IA Izmir Dushanbe DESERT Shijiazhuang Dalian couple meetings per year, and they once (SP.) Palermo Death Valley H Washington, D.C. 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.) 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Everest Nanjing Nantong N A Tijuana El Paso R Marrakech Kandaha¯r Lahore Mexicali Bengha¯zi¯ Alexandria ISRAEL Ahva¯z I M (highest point in Asia Hefei Jerusalem Amman Faisala¯ba¯d Shanghai M I R A N New and the world, 8850 m) Ciudad Al Bas¸rah A Chengdu Wuhan S Austin Jacksonville MOROCCO Cairo JORDAN Quetta Multa¯n Ludhia¯na Hangzhou P Orleans D Juarez Houston L A O - S- H O T O 30 (JA 30 CANARY ISLANDS Al Jizah¯ Dead Sea KUWAIT New Y Lhasa Ningbo N Shira¯ ¯z Za¯heda¯n A Chongqing C (SP.) East China P Chihuahua San Nanchang A Orlando (lowest point in Kuwait S A Delhi BHUTAN A L G E R I A PAKISTAN I Changsha N Antonio Tampa L Asia, -408 m) NEPAL Sea ) T A¯ gra S ) L I B Y A Kathmandu I Thimphu N BAHRAIN Guiyang Okinawa Laayoune SAUDI Persian Jaipur A Midway N E G Y P T OMAN Lucknow Fuzhou P - Monterrey Miami Ka¯npur Manama Gulf Hydera¯ba¯d Patna A Islands THE Abu U J Matamoros Nassau Milwaukee Deep Western Y ( Torreón Gulf of Mexico A Kunming Taipei (U.S.) Riyadh Doha Dhabi K Minami-tori-shima BAHAMAS (deepest point of the Medina Gulf of Oman BANGLADESH Xiamen Aswa¯n Kara¯chi U (JAPAN) Atlantic Ocean, -8605 m) L Sahara QATAR Dhaka Y invited me to present a paper about where Tropic of Cancer (23°27') MEXICO UNITED ARAB Muscat Bhopa¯l Shantou R Tropic of Cancer (23°27') Havana Turks and Ahmada¯ba¯d Guangzhou HAWAIIAN ISLANDS San Luis British T EMIRATES Jamshedpur Khulna Taiwan Potosí Caicos Islands Virgin Virgin Islands ARABIA Indore Kolkata Mandalay Nanning Kaohsiung (U.K.) A Red Jeddah Chittagong Hong Kong León CUBA Islands (U.K.) Su¯rat Na¯gpur Hanoi Zhanjiang S.A.R. 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(U.S.) A (MEXICO) (U.S.) Da Nang ISLANDS Johnston Atoll (U.S.) N I G E R Omdurman ERITREA Vijayawa¯da Bay of N CAPE VERDE YEMEN (U.S.) Montserrat DOMINICA Kassala Asmara THAILAND Saipan GUATEMALA HONDURAS A (U.K.) CHAD Khartoum VIETNAM I Martinique (FR.) Dakar Sanaa Manila Tegucigalpa Caribbean Sea SENEGAL R Praia Bengal Bangkok Guatemala City ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA Niamey A Banjul BURKINA Mek’ele¯ ANDAMAN Hagåtña San Salvador Aruba THE GRENADINES Bamako Arabian Bangalore Chennai South China PHILIPPINES M (NETH.) BARBADOS FASO Lac 'Assal Aden ISLANDS CAMBODIA Guam EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA Curacao(NETH.) THE GAMBIA Gulf of Aden (U.S.) Kano N'Djamena (lowest point in (INDIA) GRENADA Bissau DJIBOUTI Socotra Sea P Challenger Deep Managua Ouagadougou Nyala Africa, -155 m) H Barranquilla Djibouti (YEMEN) Coimbatore Phnom (world's greatest ocean depth, -10924 m) MARSHALL Maracaibo Port of Spain Sea Kozhikode Andaman Ho Chi Minh I Cartagena Caracas GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA BENIN Cebu L LAKSHADWEEP Penh City I San José NIGERIA Madurai P Clipperton Island TRINIDAD AND Addis (INDIA) Sea FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA ISLANDS Valencia Conakry Y Hargeysa Gulf of P Colón Panama Ciudad TOBAGO Abuja Ababa E Kochi SPRATLY (FRANCE) CÔTE LL I I scrounge the material for my columns COSTA City TOGO Thailand ISLANDS N Guayana Freetown A Cúcuta S D'IVOIRE GHANA Ogbomoso V E RICA PANAMA SIERRA SOUTH Melekeok Ibadan ETHIOPIA Laccadive E Yamoussoukro Colombo Davao Palikir Majuro Kingman Reef (U.S.) Georgetown CENTRAL Zamboanga LEONE NICOBAR T Medellín VENEZUELA Lagos Isla del Coco Lomé SUDAN SRI R Paramaribo T Sea ISLANDS (COSTA RICA) D AFRICAN REPUBLIC E Palmyra Atoll (U.S.) GUYANA Monrovia Accra Porto- F Bandar Seri Isla de Abidjan CAMEROON I SOMALIA LANKA (INDIA) N PALAU French Guiana Juba R Begawan Malpelo C Bogotá LIBERIA Novo N (FRANCE) Bangui H (COLOMBIA) Douala Male Kuala BRUNEI SURINAME Cayenne Medan A Malabo Lumpur EQUATORIAL GUINEA MALDIVES Celebes Sea Cali COLOMBIA Yaoundé T A M A L A Y S I A Kiritimati PENEDOS DE Gulf of Guinea UGANDA E (Christmas Island) R Mogadishu Singapore Tarawa Howland Island SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE G (U.S.) (KIRIBATI) (BRAZIL) Kisangani Kampala KENYA Pekanbaru Equator Quito Equator Sâo Tomé Libreville REP.