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Arizona Physical Map

Arizona is a state of dramatic vertical relief — from Sonoran Desert to alpine peaks above 12,000 feet.

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

Highest Point

Humphreys Peak

12,633 ft

Lowest Point

Colorado River at Yuma

70 ft

Arizona physical map showing the Grand Canyon, the Colorado Plateau, the Sonoran Desert, and the Mogollon Rim, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

Arizona physical map, labeled: the Grand Canyon, the Colorado Plateau, the Sonoran Desert, and the Mogollon Rim, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Arizona blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Arizona relief wall art

Arizona 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 Arizona

Northern Arizona sits on the Colorado Plateau, a high tableland that the Colorado River has cut into the Grand Canyon. The plateau ends at the Mogollon Rim, a long line of cliffs across the middle of the state. South and west of the rim is Basin and Range country, where isolated mountain ranges stand above the Sonoran Desert. Humphreys Peak, an old volcano near Flagstaff, is the highest point.

Major rivers

  • Colorado
  • Gila
  • Salt
  • Verde
  • Little Colorado

Find it on the map

  • The Grand Canyon as a deep trench across the northwest
  • The Mogollon Rim running diagonally across the state
  • Separate mountain ranges rising from the desert in the southeast
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Arizona 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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Arizona political map

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

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