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Nevada Physical Map

Nevada is the most mountainous state outside Alaska — over 300 named ranges run roughly north-south across the Basin and Range.

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

Highest Point

Boundary Peak

13,147 ft

Lowest Point

Colorado River

481 ft

Nevada physical map showing the Sierra Nevada’s eastern flank, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

Nevada physical map, labeled: the Sierra Nevada’s eastern flank, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Nevada blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Nevada relief wall art

Nevada 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 Nevada

Nevada is Basin and Range country: long, narrow mountain ranges running north to south with flat desert valleys between them. Most of the state lies in the Great Basin, where rivers never reach the sea and instead end in lakes or dry sinks. The Sierra Nevada touches the western edge at Lake Tahoe. The southern tip is in the Mojave Desert and drains to the Colorado River. Boundary Peak, on the California border, is the highest point.

Major rivers

  • Humboldt
  • Colorado
  • Truckee
  • Carson
  • Walker

Find it on the map

  • Row after row of parallel mountain ranges
  • Lake Tahoe on the western border
  • Lake Mead in the southeast corner
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Nevada 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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Nevada political map

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

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