Asia Physical Map
A free printable physical map of Asia, with elevation shown in color and shaded relief. The labeled version names the mountain ranges, deserts, plains, rivers, seas and highest peaks. The blank version leaves them off for students to fill in.
Highest Point
Mt. Everest, Nepal and China
29,032 ft
Lowest Point
Dead Sea shore
about 1,400 ft below sea level
Choose your version
Labeled or blank.
Both are free PDFs sized for US Letter paper.
Labeled
Ranges, deserts, plains, rivers, lakes, seas and the highest peaks, all named. Use it as a reference or an answer key.
downloadLabeled PDF
Blank
The same terrain with no names and a name line at the top, for students to label the features themselves.
downloadBlank PDFThe physical geography of Asia
The center of Asia is the highest land on Earth. The Himalayas hold Mt. Everest, and north of them the Tibetan Plateau averages nearly three miles above sea level. More ranges spread out from this core, including the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram, the Kunlun Mountains and the Tian Shan. North of the mountains lie the deserts and steppes of Central Asia and the vast plains and plateaus of Siberia. Great rivers flow from the highlands to fertile lowlands in China, India and Southeast Asia. The southwest is mostly desert and dry plateau, and thousands of islands lie off the east and southeast coasts.
Major rivers
- Yangtze
- Yellow
- Ganges
- Indus
- Mekong
- Ob
- Yenisey
- Lena
Find it on the map
- The pale, high Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas along its southern edge
- The Arabian Peninsula in the southwest
- The island chains of Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia
Built from real data, not stock images.
The terrain is drawn from a global elevation model (Mapzen terrain tiles, built from NASA SRTM and other public surveys). Coastlines, rivers, lakes and feature names come from Natural Earth. All eight of our US, continent and world physical maps use the same elevation colors, so they can be compared with each other.
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