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Louisiana Physical Map

Louisiana’s physical map is defined by water — the Mississippi delta, Atchafalaya Basin, and an intricate network of bayous.

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

Highest Point

Driskill Mountain

535 ft

Lowest Point

New Orleans (parts below sea level)

-8 ft

Louisiana physical map showing the Mississippi River delta, the bayou country, and the Gulf Coastal Plain, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

Louisiana physical map, labeled: the Mississippi River delta, the bayou country, and the Gulf Coastal Plain, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Louisiana blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Louisiana relief wall art

Louisiana 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 Louisiana

Louisiana is low and flat, and all of it lies on the Gulf Coastal Plain. The Mississippi River’s floodplain runs down the eastern side and ends in a delta that reaches into the Gulf of Mexico. West of it is the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest river swamp in the country. Marshes line the whole coast. The highest ground is in the pine hills of the north, where Driskill Mountain reaches 535 feet. Parts of New Orleans lie below sea level.

Major rivers

  • Mississippi
  • Red
  • Atchafalaya
  • Ouachita
  • Sabine
  • Pearl

Find it on the map

  • The Mississippi Delta reaching out into the Gulf
  • Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans
  • The low hills of the north
verified

Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Louisiana 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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Louisiana political map

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

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