120 120 40 80 80 100 80 60 A rctic Circle Tropic of Cancer Equator 20 40 60 80 100 140 160 20 20 0 0 60 60 20 140 40 40 160 180 Arabian Arabian Sea Sea Bay of Bay of Bengal Bengal Andaman Andaman Sea Sea Laccadive Laccadive Sea Sea Gulf of Thailand South South China China Sea Sea East China Sea Yellow Sea Sea of Japan Sea of Okhotsk East Siberian East Siberian Sea Sea Laptev Laptev Sea Sea Kara Sea Kara Sea Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Barents Sea Norwegian Norwegian Sea Sea North North Sea Sea Caspian Sea Persian Gulf Lake Balkhash Aral Sea Lake Onega Lake Ladoga Black Sea Lake Baikal Bering Bering Sea Sea Philippine Philippine Sea Sea Java Sea Banda Sea Banda Sea Celebes Sea Celebes Sea Sulu Sea Sulu Sea Timor Sea Indian Indian Ocean Ocean K o ly m a L e n a L e n a V ily u y O b ’ E r t i s A m u D a r y a Irtys h A n gara Y e n is e y O b ’ V o l g a I nd u s V o l g a K a m a P e c h o r a G a n g e s B r a h m aputra I r r a w a d y Xi Jiang Y an g t z e Y e ll o w S a l w e e n M e k o n g A l d a n Amur A mur CHINA MONGOLIA INDIA IRAN AFGHANISTAN BURMA SRI LANKA MALDIVES THAILAND AUSTRALIA MALAYSIA MALAYSIA LAOS VIETNAM CAMBODIA BANGLADESH SINGAPORE BRUNEI NEPAL BHUTAN PHILIPPINES SOUTH KOREA NORTH KOREA JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN UKRAINE BELARUS FINLAND SWEDEN NORWAY Svalbard (NORWAY) Christmas Island (AUSTL.) Cocos (Keeling) Islands (AUSTL.) POL. LITH. RUS. DEN. U.K. LAT. AZERBAIJAN GEO. ARM. EST. TURKMENISTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN UZBEKISTAN OMAN U.A.E. QATAR SAUDI ARABIA PAKISTAN RUSSIA INDONESIA Okinawa U.S. Taiwan TIMOR-LESTE 1972 Line of Control Line of Actual Control Indian claim ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA) NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA) LAKSHADWEEP (INDIA) SPRATLY ISLANDS Hainan Dao Sakhalin Wrangel Island NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA KURIL ISLANDS FRANZ JOSEF LAND NOVAYA ZEMLYA Luzon Mindano Sulawesi (Celebes) Sumatra Java Timor Borneo R Y U K U I S L A N D S ( J A P A N ) Ocuppied by the Soviet Union in 1945, administered by Russia, claimed by Japan. Mt. Everest Mt. Everest (highest point in the world, (highest point in the world, 8850 m) 8850 m) A L T A Y M T S . T I E N S H A N K U N L U N H I M A L A Y A S Z A G R O S M T S . CAUCASUS M T S . M O U N T A I N S HENG D UA N SH A N A L T A Y M T S . TAKLA MAKAN DESERT U R A L M O U N T A I N S S I B E R I A G O B I D E S E R T GARAGUM QIZILQUM K O L Y M S K O Y E N A G O R ' Y E K H R E B E T D Z H U G D Z H U R V E R K H O Y A N S K K H R E B E T YABLO N O VYY KHREBET S I K H O T E - A L I N ' T I E N S H A N K U N L U N H I M A L A Y A S Z A G R O S M T S . CAUCASUS M T S . K H REBET C H ER S K O G O M O U N T A I N S QING ZANG GAOYUAN HENG D UA N SH A N D A H I N G G A N L I N G M A N C H U R I A N P L A I N D E C C A N W E S T E R N G H A T S E A S T E R N GHATS Mt. Everest (highest point in the world, 8850 m) Macau S.A.R. Hong Kong S.A.R. Murmansk Arkhangel’sk Glasgow Saint Petersburg Voronezh Nizhniy Novgorod Saratov Rostov Samara Almaty Mashhad Es ¸faha ¯n Bandar ’Abba ¯s Kara ¯chi Kandaha ¯r Quetta Jaipur Ahmada ¯ba ¯d Surat Mumbai Pune Cochin Chittagong Lhasa Noril’sk Omsk Novosibirsk Krasnoyarsk Yakutsk Tiksi Irkutsk Magadan Cherskiy Anadyr’ Provideniya Petropavlovsk- Kamchatskiy Mandalay Nay Pyi Taw Kashi Ürümqi Harbin Changchun Chita Shenyang Dalian Baotou Taiyuan Tianjin Xi’an Zhengzhou Qingdao Jinan Nanjing Hangzhou Nanchang Changsha Chongqing Chengdu Guiyang Kunming Nanning Guangzhou Wuhan Shanghai Lanzhou Da Nang Haiphong Taipei Fukuoka Pusan Osaka Yokohama Nagoya Khabarovsk Vladivostok Sapporo Medan Bandung Semarang Pontianak Makassar Ambon Davao Cebu Quezon City Ho Chi Minh City Surabaya Ka ¯npur Kolkata Lucknow Hydera ¯ba ¯d Bengaluru Jaffna Chennai Kazan’ Ufa Perm’ Yekaterinburg Chelyabinsk Atryaü (Atryau) Qaraghandy (Karaganda) Volgograd Kharkiv Donets’k Tabriz ¯ Shira ¯z ¯ Ludhia ¯na Indore Na ¯gpur Patna Visha ¯khapatnam Faisala ¯ba ¯d Lahore Palembang Ulaanbaatar Beijing Pyongyang Seoul Vientiane Bangkok Dhaka New Delhi Male Colombo Kuala Lumpur Jakarta Hanoi Manila Tokyo Bandar Seri Begawan Muscat Abu Dhabi Tehran Astana Ashgabat Doha Baku Yerevan Tbilisi Kyiv Moscow Minsk Copenhagen Stockholm Helsinki Vilnius Tallinn Riga Oslo Warsaw Dushanbe Bishkek Tashkent Kabul Islamabad Kathmandu Thimphu Phnom Penh Rangoon ¯ Dili Singapore Scale 1:48,000,000 Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection 0 800 Kilometers 0 800 Miles Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative. ASIA 803401AI (G00543) 6-09