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Tennessee Physical Map

Tennessee runs east-west across the entire span of southern Appalachia — from the Smokies to the Mississippi.

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

Highest Point

Clingmans Dome

6,643 ft

Lowest Point

Mississippi River

178 ft

Tennessee physical map showing the Smoky Mountains, the Cumberland Plateau, and the Mississippi River valley, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

Tennessee physical map, labeled: the Smoky Mountains, the Cumberland Plateau, and the Mississippi River valley, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Tennessee blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Tennessee relief wall art

Tennessee 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 Tennessee

Tennessee stretches from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River. The eastern edge is the Great Smoky Mountains, with the state’s highest point. West of them is the Great Valley, a belt of long ridges and valleys, and then the flat-topped Cumberland Plateau. Middle Tennessee is a ring of higher ground, the Highland Rim, around the lower Nashville Basin. West Tennessee slopes gently down to the Mississippi floodplain. The Tennessee River crosses the state twice.

Major rivers

  • Tennessee
  • Cumberland
  • Mississippi
  • Clinch
  • Duck
  • Hiwassee

Find it on the map

  • The mountains along the eastern border
  • The ridges and valleys running northeast through East Tennessee
  • The Tennessee River flowing north across the western part of the state
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Tennessee 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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Tennessee political map

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

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