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Alabama Physical Map

Alabama’s physical geography sweeps from Appalachian foothills in the north down to a narrow Gulf Coast in the south.

Rendered from SRTM 30m elevation data + Natural Earth rivers/lakes + US Census state boundary. Four versions below, all free.

Highest Point

Cheaha Mountain

2,407 ft

Lowest Point

Gulf of Mexico

0 ft

Alabama physical map showing the Cumberland Plateau in the north, the Coastal Plain in the south, and the Black Belt prairie, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

The same Alabama terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Alabama physical map, labeled: the Cumberland Plateau in the north, the Coastal Plain in the south, and the Black Belt prairie, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Alabama blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Alabama physical map for the classroom

Elevation in color with shaded relief, plus the surrounding states and water for context. The labeled version marks the capital, major cities and the highest point. The blank version leaves them off so students can label the map themselves.

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Alabama relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Alabama relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Alabama relief wall art

Alabama on its own, with strong shaded relief and no labels. The dark version has the most contrast. The light version uses far less ink on a home printer.

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The physical geography of Alabama

Northern Alabama is the southern end of the Appalachians: the Cumberland Plateau, the parallel ridges and valleys around Birmingham, and the Piedmont, where Cheaha Mountain is the state’s highest point. South of the Fall Line the land flattens into the Gulf Coastal Plain, crossed by the dark-soiled Black Belt, and ends at Mobile Bay and a short Gulf coast.

Major rivers

  • Tennessee
  • Alabama
  • Tombigbee
  • Coosa
  • Black Warrior
  • Chattahoochee

Find it on the map

  • The Tennessee River looping across the north of the state
  • Ridges running northeast from Birmingham
  • Mobile Bay cutting into the short Gulf coast
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Alabama physical map on this page was rendered from NASA SRTM 30-meter elevation data, with hydrography from Natural Earth and the shoreline-clipped state outline from the US Census Bureau. Each map is colored over that state’s own elevation range, and the relief shading is exaggerated so gentle terrain still shows.

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Alabama political map

The blank outline version of Alabama (state borders, no terrain). Useful for political-geography exercises.

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