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Maryland Physical Map

Maryland packs the Atlantic coast, the Chesapeake estuary, and the Allegheny Mountains into a remarkably narrow east-west span.

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

Highest Point

Hoye-Crest

3,360 ft

Lowest Point

Atlantic Ocean

0 ft

Maryland physical map showing the Chesapeake Bay, the Allegheny Mountains, and the Piedmont, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

Maryland physical map, labeled: the Chesapeake Bay, the Allegheny Mountains, and the Piedmont, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Maryland blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Maryland relief wall art

Maryland 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 Maryland

Maryland crosses five land regions in a short distance. The Coastal Plain lies on both sides of Chesapeake Bay, with the flat Eastern Shore on one side and the Western Shore on the other. The Piedmont is rolling country around Baltimore. West of it come the Blue Ridge, the long ridges of the Ridge and Valley region, and finally the Appalachian Plateau, where Hoye-Crest on Backbone Mountain is the highest point. Near Hancock the state is less than two miles wide.

Major rivers

  • Potomac
  • Susquehanna
  • Patuxent
  • Patapsco
  • Choptank
  • Youghiogheny

Find it on the map

  • Chesapeake Bay nearly splitting the state in two
  • The narrow western panhandle
  • Mountains only in the far west
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Maryland 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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Maryland political map

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

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