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Rhode Island Physical Map

Rhode Island’s small landmass is dominated by Narragansett Bay — the bay defines the state’s geography more than any landform.

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

Highest Point

Jerimoth Hill

812 ft

Lowest Point

Atlantic Ocean

0 ft

Rhode Island physical map showing the Narragansett Bay, the upland forests, and the Atlantic coast, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

Rhode Island physical map, labeled: the Narragansett Bay, the upland forests, and the Atlantic coast, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Rhode Island blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Rhode Island 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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Rhode Island relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Rhode Island relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Rhode Island relief wall art

Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island

Narragansett Bay reaches about 28 miles into Rhode Island and divides the eastern part of the state. The land around the bay and along the south coast is low. Several islands lie in the bay, the largest being Aquidneck Island, where Newport is located. The western two-thirds of the state is a rolling upland of low hills, woods and ponds. Jerimoth Hill, the highest point, is there, near the Connecticut border. Block Island lies about ten miles off the south coast.

Major rivers

  • Blackstone
  • Pawtuxet
  • Pawcatuck
  • Providence

Find it on the map

  • Narragansett Bay and its islands
  • Block Island off the south coast
  • Higher ground in the northwest
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Rhode Island 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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Rhode Island political map

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

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