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Virginia Physical Map

Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is one of the most distinctive river valleys in North America — visible as a long green corridor on the physical map.

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

Highest Point

Mt. Rogers

5,729 ft

Lowest Point

Atlantic Ocean

0 ft

Virginia physical map showing the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley, the Piedmont, and the Tidewater, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

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

Virginia physical map, labeled: the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley, the Piedmont, and the Tidewater, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Virginia blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

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

Virginia relief wall art

Virginia 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 Virginia

Virginia has five land regions from east to west. The Tidewater is a low coastal plain divided into peninsulas by the Potomac, Rappahannock, York and James rivers. The Piedmont is a wide, rolling plateau. The Blue Ridge is a narrow mountain range that includes Mt. Rogers, the highest point. Beyond it is the Valley and Ridge region, with the Shenandoah Valley. The far southwest corner is on the Appalachian Plateau. The Eastern Shore is a separate piece of the state across Chesapeake Bay.

Major rivers

  • James
  • Potomac
  • Rappahannock
  • York
  • Shenandoah
  • New
  • Roanoke

Find it on the map

  • The peninsulas along Chesapeake Bay
  • The Blue Ridge as a long, narrow range
  • The Shenandoah Valley just west of it
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Virginia 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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Virginia political map

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

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