Europe Physical Map
A free printable physical map of Europe, 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. Elbrus, Russia
18,510 ft
Lowest Point
Caspian Sea shore
about 92 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 Europe
Europe is a large peninsula with many smaller peninsulas reaching into the surrounding seas. A broad lowland, the North European Plain, runs from France across Germany and Poland into Russia. South of it a belt of young mountains crosses the continent: the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Apennines, the Carpathians and the Balkan ranges. Old, worn highlands cover Scandinavia and northern Britain. The Ural Mountains and the Caucasus mark the usual boundary with Asia.
Major rivers
- Volga
- Danube
- Dnieper
- Rhine
- Elbe
- Vistula
- Loire
Find it on the map
- The Alps arcing across the center of the continent
- The flat North European Plain
- The Scandinavian, Iberian and Italian peninsulas
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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