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The Physical Map of North America shows the various geographical features of the continent. These include the Western Mountains, the Great Plains and the Canadian Shield. The major water bodies include the Great Lakes and rivers like Mississippi, Missouri, Colorado and St. Laurence. Buy Printed Map.
The map is showing physiographic regions of North America like the Atlantic–Gulf Coastal Plains; the Appalachian Highlands; the Great Plains; the Central Lowands; the Rocky Mountain System; and the Pacific Mountain System.
North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean and to the south east by the Caribbean Sea and South America. The border between North America and South America is at the Darién Mountains watershed.
North America, third largest of the world’s continents, lying for the most part between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer. It extends for more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) to within 500 miles (800 km) of both the North Pole and the Equator and has an east-west extent of 5,000 miles.
A 1702 map of North America showing forts, towns, and (in solid colors) areas occupied by European colonial settlements. During the so-called Age of Discovery, Europeans explored overseas and staked claims to various parts of North America, much of which was already settled by indigenous peoples.
Our North America Map identifies every country and island and the 50 American states. Free map of North America, geography facts, and more from Worldatlas.com
This map shows landforms in North America. You may download, print or use the above map for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes. Attribution is required.
Printable maps of North America and information on the continent's 23 countries including history, geography facts.
Physical map illustrates the mountains, lowlands, oceans, lakes and rivers and other physical landscape features of North America. Differences in land elevations relative to the sea level are represented by color.
North America physical features. The vast majority of North America is on the North American Plate. Parts of California and western Mexico form the partial edge of the Pacific Plate, with the two plates meeting along the San Andreas fault.