World Physical Map
A free printable physical map of the world, with elevation shown in color and shaded relief. The labeled version names the mountain ranges, deserts, plains, rivers, seas and highest peaks. The blank version leaves them off for students to fill in.
Highest Point
Mt. Everest, Asia
29,032 ft
Lowest Point
Dead Sea shore, Asia
about 1,400 ft below sea level
Choose your version
Labeled or blank.
Both are free PDFs sized for US Letter paper.
Labeled
Ranges, deserts, plains, rivers, lakes, seas and the highest peaks, all named. Use it as a reference or an answer key.
downloadLabeled PDF
Blank
The same terrain with no names and a name line at the top, for students to label the features themselves.
downloadBlank PDFThe physical geography of the world
About 29 percent of Earth’s surface is land, divided into seven continents. The highest mountains form two great belts. One runs along the western edge of the Americas, from Alaska through the Rocky Mountains and down the Andes. The other crosses southern Europe and Asia, from the Alps through the Caucasus to the Himalayas. The largest deserts lie in bands on either side of the equator, including the Sahara, the Arabian Desert and the deserts of Australia. Ice sheets cover Antarctica and most of Greenland.
Longest rivers
- Nile
- Amazon
- Yangtze
- Mississippi and Missouri
- Yenisey
- Yellow
- Ob
- Congo
Find it on the map
- The mountain belt down the west side of the Americas
- The Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau, the highest land on Earth
- The white ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland
Built from real data, not stock images.
The terrain is drawn from a global elevation model (Mapzen terrain tiles, built from NASA SRTM and other public surveys). Coastlines, rivers, lakes and feature names come from Natural Earth. All eight of our US, continent and world physical maps use the same elevation colors, so they can be compared with each other.
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