Canada Physical Map
A free printable physical map of Canada, with elevation shown in color and shaded relief. The labeled version names the mountain ranges, deserts, plains, rivers, seas and highest peaks, plus the capital and largest cities. The blank version leaves them off for students to fill in.
Highest Point
Mt. Logan
19,551 ft
Lowest Point
Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts
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 Canada
The Canadian Shield, a vast region of very old rock dotted with lakes, wraps around Hudson Bay and covers almost half of Canada. South and west of it are the Interior Plains, which run from the prairies to the Arctic. The western edge of the country is mountains: the Rocky Mountains, the Coast Mountains, and the Saint Elias Mountains, where Mt. Logan is the highest peak. In the southeast, the lowlands around the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River hold most of the population. The far north is a group of large Arctic islands.
Major rivers
- Mackenzie
- Yukon
- St. Lawrence
- Nelson
- Fraser
- Saskatchewan
Find it on the map
- Hudson Bay cutting deep into the country
- The band of mountains in the far west
- The large islands of the Arctic
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. The colors are spread over this country’s own elevation range, so its terrain shows clearly whether it is flat or mountainous.
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