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Pennsylvania Physical Map

Pennsylvania’s "ridge-and-valley" region shows on a physical map as a series of perfectly parallel ridges — a textbook fold-mountain pattern.

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

Highest Point

Mt. Davis

3,213 ft

Lowest Point

Delaware River

0 ft

Pennsylvania physical map showing the Allegheny Plateau, the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, 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 Pennsylvania terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Pennsylvania physical map, labeled: the Allegheny Plateau, the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, and the Piedmont, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Pennsylvania blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Pennsylvania relief wall art

Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania

The Appalachians cross Pennsylvania in a wide curve. The southeast is Piedmont, a rolling lowland around Philadelphia and Lancaster. Next comes the Ridge and Valley region, where long, even ridges and narrow valleys bend across the center of the state. Beyond a steep slope called the Allegheny Front lies the Allegheny Plateau, which covers the north and west. Mt. Davis, the highest point, is on the plateau near the Maryland border. A narrow plain borders Lake Erie in the northwest.

Major rivers

  • Susquehanna
  • Delaware
  • Allegheny
  • Monongahela
  • Ohio
  • Juniata
  • Schuylkill

Find it on the map

  • The parallel ridges curving across the middle of the state
  • The Susquehanna River cutting through those ridges
  • The Allegheny and Monongahela meeting at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio
verified

Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Pennsylvania 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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Pennsylvania political map

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

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