World Political Map Poster
PANEL A1 (ROW 1, COL 1) NORTHWEST ARCTIC & NORTH AMERICA
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [1,1] • TOP LEFT
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80° N
━━━━━ 66.5° N ARCTIC CIRCLE ━━━━━
50° N
40° N
World Political Map
CLASSROOM WALL EDITION
Scale: 1:30,000,000 • Robinson Projection • Panel 1 of 12
★ National Capital ● Major Sea — Border
ARCTIC OCEAN Beaufort Sea Baffin Bay GREENLAND (DENMARK) ★ Nuuk (Godthåb) CANADA Victoria Island Baffin Island Hudson Bay Northwest Terr. Yukon Nunavut • Yellowknife • Whitehorse • Iqaluit • Edmonton • Vancouver • Winnipeg ★ OTTAWA • Montreal • Toronto ALASKA (UNITED STATES) • Anchorage ★ Juneau UNITED STATES (NORTHERN SECTOR) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
GRID POSITION:
A1
180°W 150°W 120°W 90°W 60°W
MATCH: Right edge aligns with PANEL A2 →
BOTTOM: Aligns with PANEL B1 ↓
PANEL A2 (ROW 1, COL 2) NORTH ATLANTIC, EUROPE & NW RUSSIA
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [1,2] • TOP CENTER-LEFT
60°W 30°W 0° (PRIME MERIDIAN) 30°E 60°E
80° N
━━━━━ 66.5° N ARCTIC CIRCLE ━━━━━
50° N
40° N
0° PRIME MERIDIAN
BARENTS SEA & SVALBARD Svalbard (NOR) ICELAND ★ REYKJAVÍK IRELAND ★ Dublin UNITED KINGDOM ★ LONDON • Edinburgh NORWAY ★ Oslo SWEDEN ★ Stockholm FINLAND ★ Helsinki Baltic Sea DENMARK ★ Copenhagen GERMANY ★ Berlin POLAND ★ Warsaw ESTONIA • Tallinn ★ LATVIA • Riga ★ LITHUANIA • Vilnius ★ RUSSIA (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) ★ MOSCOW • St. Petersburg • Kazan • Yekaterinburg ▲ URAL MTS. (EUR/ASIA BORDER) ▲ BELARUS ★ Minsk UKRAINE ★ KYIV NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
GRID POSITION:
A2
60°W 30°W 0° 30°E 60°E
← Aligns with PANEL A1 Aligns with PANEL B2 ↓ Aligns with PANEL A3 →
PANEL A3 (ROW 1, COL 3) NORTH & CENTRAL ASIA (SIBERIA, KAZAKHSTAN)
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [1,3] • TOP CENTER-RIGHT
60°E 90°E 120°E 150°E
80° N
━━━━━ 66.5° N ARCTIC CIRCLE ━━━━━
50° N
40° N
Kara Sea Laptev Sea RUSSIA (SIBERIA REGION) • Novosibirsk • Omsk • Krasnoyarsk • Irkutsk (Lake Baikal) • Yakutsk Lake Baikal Ob River ~~~ Yenisey River ~~~ Lena River ~~~ KAZAKHSTAN ★ ASTANA MONGOLIA (NORTH) ★ ULAANBAATAR
GRID POSITION:
A3
60°E 90°E 120°E 150°E
← Aligns with PANEL A2 Aligns with PANEL B3 ↓ Aligns with PANEL A4 →
PANEL A4 (ROW 1, COL 4) BERING STRAIT, FAR EAST RUSSIA & NORTH PACIFIC
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [1,4] • TOP RIGHT
150°E 170°E 180° (DATE LINE) 160°W 140°W
80° N
━━━━━ 66.5° N ARCTIC CIRCLE ━━━━━
50° N
40° N
180° INT. DATE LINE
RUSSIA (FAR EAST) Kamchatka Peninsula Sea of Okhotsk BERING SEA Bering Strait ALASKA (U.S.) Aleutian Islands (USA) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN Western Hemisphere / Eastern Hemisphere Transition Zone
GRID POSITION:
A4
150°E 170°E 180° 160°W 140°W
← Aligns with PANEL A3 Aligns with PANEL B4 ↓ Rightmost Outer Border
PANEL B1 (ROW 2, COL 1) NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA, CARIBBEAN
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [2,1] • MID LEFT
130°W 110°W 90°W 70°W 50°W
40° N
30° N
━━━━━ 23.5° N TROPIC OF CANCER ━━━━━
10° N
UNITED STATES ★ WASHINGTON, D.C. • New York City • Chicago • Los Angeles • Houston • Miami MEXICO ★ MEXICO CITY • Guadalajara • Monterrey Gulf of Mexico CUBA ★ Havana BAHAMAS ★ Nassau JAMAICA ★ Kingston HAITI ★ Port-au-Prince DOM. REP. ★ Sto. Domingo GUATEMALA ★ Guatemala City BELIZE ★ Belmopan EL SALVADOR ★ San Salvador HONDURAS ★ Tegucigalpa NICARAGUA ★ Managua COSTA RICA ★ San José PANAMA ★ Panama City CARIBBEAN SEA EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN
GRID POSITION:
B1
130°W 110°W 90°W 70°W 50°W
↑ Aligns with PANEL A1 Aligns with PANEL C1 ↓ Aligns with PANEL B2 →
PANEL B2 (ROW 2, COL 2) MEDITERRANEAN, NORTH AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [2,2] • MID CENTER-LEFT
20°W 0° (PRIME MERIDIAN) 20°E 40°E 60°E
40° N
━━━━━ 23.5° N TROPIC OF CANCER ━━━━━
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0° EQUATOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
SPAIN ★ MADRID PORTUGAL ★ Lisbon FRANCE ★ PARIS ITALY ★ ROME GREECE ★ Athens TURKEY ★ ANKARA • Istanbul MEDITERRANEAN SEA MOROCCO ★ Rabat ALGERIA ★ ALGIERS TUNISIA ★ Tunis LIBYA ★ TRIPOLI EGYPT ★ CAIRO Nile River MAURITANIA ★ Nouakchott MALI ★ Bamako NIGER ★ Niamey CHAD ★ N'Djamena SUDAN ★ KHARTOUM Red Sea SYRIA ★ Damascus JORDAN ★ Amman IRAQ ★ Baghdad IRAN ★ TEHRAN SAUDI ARABIA ★ RIYADH • Mecca Persian Gulf YEMEN ★ Sana'a OMAN ★ Muscat Arabian Sea NIGERIA ★ ABUJA • Lagos ETHIOPIA ★ ADDIS ABABA SOMALIA ★ Mogadishu
GRID POSITION:
B2
20°W 0° 20°E 40°E 60°E
← Aligns with PANEL B1 Aligns with PANEL C2 ↓ Aligns with PANEL B3 →
PANEL B3 (ROW 2, COL 3) SOUTH ASIA, EAST ASIA & SOUTHEAST ASIA
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [2,3] • MID CENTER-RIGHT
60°E 80°E 100°E 120°E 140°E
40° N
━━━━━ 23.5° N TROPIC OF CANCER ━━━━━
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0° EQUATOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
CHINA ★ BEIJING • Shanghai • Guangzhou / Hong Kong • Chengdu TAIWAN ★ Taipei N. KOREA ★ Pyongyang S. KOREA ★ SEOUL JAPAN ★ TOKYO • Osaka PAKISTAN ★ ISLAMABAD • Karachi INDIA ★ NEW DELHI • Mumbai • Bengaluru • Kolkata ▲ HIMALAYAS / Mt. Everest ▲ NEPAL ★ Kathmandu BHUTAN ★ Thimphu BANGLADESH ★ Dhaka SRI LANKA ★ Colombo / Sri Jayawardenepura Bay of Bengal MYANMAR ★ Naypyidaw THAILAND ★ BANGKOK LAOS ★ Vientiane VIETNAM ★ HANOI CAMBODIA ★ Phnom Penh South China Sea PHILIPPINES ★ MANILA MALAYSIA ★ Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE ★ Sumatra (INDONESIA) BORNEO (BRUNEI / MALAYSIA / INDONESIA) JAVA (INDONESIA) ★ JAKARTA INDIAN OCEAN
GRID POSITION:
B3
60°E 80°E 100°E 120°E 140°E
← Aligns with PANEL B2 Aligns with PANEL C3 ↓ Aligns with PANEL B4 →
PANEL B4 (ROW 2, COL 4) CENTRAL PACIFIC, OCEANIA & HAWAII
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [2,4] • MID RIGHT
140°E 160°E 180° (DATE LINE) 160°W 140°W
40° N
━━━━━ 23.5° N TROPIC OF CANCER ━━━━━
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0° EQUATOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
HAWAII (UNITED STATES) Kauai ★ Honolulu (Oahu) Maui Hawaii (Big Is.) GUAM (US) ★ Hagåtña N. MARIANA IS. (US) ★ Saipan FED. STATES OF MICRONESIA ★ Palikir PALAU ★ Ngerulmud MARSHALL ISLANDS ★ Majuro KIRIBATI ★ South Tarawa NAURU ★ Yaren PACIFIC OCEAN (POLYNESIA & MICRONESIA)
GRID POSITION:
B4
140°E 160°E 180° 160°W 140°W
← Aligns with PANEL B3 Aligns with PANEL C4 ↓ Rightmost Outer Border
PANEL C1 (ROW 3, COL 1) SOUTH AMERICA & SOUTHERN OCEANS
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [3,1] • BOTTOM LEFT
100°W 80°W 60°W 40°W 20°W
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0° EQUATOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
━━━━━ 23.5° S TROPIC OF CAPRICORN ━━━━━
50° S
COLOMBIA ★ BOGOTÁ VENEZUELA ★ CARACAS GUYANA ★ Georgetown SURINAME ★ Paramaribo FR. GUIANA (FR) ★ Cayenne ECUADOR ★ QUITO PERU ★ LIMA • Cusco BRAZIL ★ BRASÍLIA • Rio de Janeiro • São Paulo • Manaus (Amazon) • Salvador Amazon River ~~~ BOLIVIA ★ La Paz / Sucre PARAGUAY ★ Asunción CHILE ★ SANTIAGO ARGENTINA ★ BUENOS AIRES • Córdoba URUGUAY ★ Montevideo ▲ ANDES MOUNTAINS (LONGEST CONTINENTAL RANGE) ▲ Tierra del Fuego • Cape Horn Falkland Islands (UK) ★ Stanley SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
GRID POSITION:
C1
100°W 80°W 60°W 40°W 20°W
↑ Aligns with PANEL B1 Aligns with PANEL C2 → Bottom-Left Corner Panel
PANEL C2 (ROW 3, COL 2) CENTRAL & SOUTHERN AFRICA, MADAGASCAR
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [3,2] • BOTTOM CENTER-LEFT
20°W 0° (PRIME MERIDIAN) 20°E 40°E 60°E
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0° EQUATOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
━━━━━ 23.5° S TROPIC OF CAPRICORN ━━━━━
40° S
DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO ★ KINSHASA GABON ★ Libreville CONGO REP. ★ Brazzaville KENYA ★ NAIROBI UGANDA ★ Kampala L. Victoria TANZANIA ★ Dodoma • Dar es Salaam ▲ Mt. Kilimanjaro (5,895m) ANGOLA ★ Luanda ZAMBIA ★ Lusaka ZIMBABWE ★ Harare MALAWI ★ Lilongwe MOZAMBIQUE ★ Maputo NAMIBIA ★ Windhoek BOTSWANA ★ Gaborone SOUTH AFRICA ★ PRETORIA / Johannesburg ★ CAPE TOWN • Durban LESOTHO ★ Maseru ESWATINI ★ Mbabane MADAGASCAR ★ ANTANANARIVO SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN INDIAN OCEAN
GRID POSITION:
C2
20°W 0° 20°E 40°E 60°E
← Aligns with PANEL C1 ↑ Aligns with PANEL B2 Aligns with PANEL C3 →
PANEL C3 (ROW 3, COL 3) AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & SOUTHERN OCEAN
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [3,3] • BOTTOM CENTER-RIGHT
100°E 120°E 140°E 160°E 180°
10° S
━━━━━ 23.5° S TROPIC OF CAPRICORN ━━━━━
40° S
PAPUA NEW GUINEA ★ PORT MORESBY West Papua (IDN) Coral Sea ≈ Great Barrier Reef ≈ AUSTRALIA ★ CANBERRA • Sydney • Melbourne • Brisbane • Adelaide • Perth • Darwin • Alice Springs (Outback) ★ Hobart (Tasmania) Tasman Sea NEW ZEALAND ★ WELLINGTON • Auckland • Christchurch SOUTHERN OCEAN
GRID POSITION:
C3
100°E 120°E 140°E 160°E 180°
← Aligns with PANEL C2 ↑ Aligns with PANEL B3 Aligns with PANEL C4 →
PANEL C4 (ROW 3, COL 4) SOUTH PACIFIC, ANTARCTICA & MASTER REFERENCE
📐 4x3 Grid Poster System POS: [3,4] • BOTTOM RIGHT
180° (DATE LINE) 150°W 120°W 90°W 60°W
━━━━━ 66.5° S ANTARCTIC CIRCLE ━━━━━
FIJI ★ Suva SAMOA ★ Apia TONGA ★ Nuku'alofa FRENCH POLYNESIA (FR) ★ Papeete (Tahiti) Easter Island (Rapa Nui - CHL) ANTARCTICA Governed by the Antarctic Treaty System (1959) • Dedicated to Peaceful Scientific Research • McMurdo Station (USA) ★ South Pole (Amundsen-Scott)
Master Poster Reference Guide
WORLD GEOGRAPHY AT A GLANCE
Complete 44" x 25" Wall Map
The 7 Continents
- 1. Asia (44.6M km² • 4.7B pop)
- 2. Africa (30.4M km² • 1.4B pop)
- 3. North America (24.7M km²)
- 4. South America (17.8M km²)
- 5. Antarctica (14.2M km²)
- 6. Europe (10.2M km² • 745M pop)
- 7. Oceania/Australia (8.6M km²)
The 5 Major Oceans
- 🌊 Pacific Ocean (168.7M km²)
- 🌊 Atlantic Ocean (85.1M km²)
- 🌊 Indian Ocean (70.6M km²)
- 🌊 Southern Ocean (22.0M km²)
- 🌊 Arctic Ocean (15.6M km²)
- Total Ocean Surface: ~71% of Earth
Major Geographic Lines
- 🔴 Equator: 0° Latitude
- 🟢 Tropic of Cancer: 23.5° N
- 🔵 Tropic of Capricorn: 23.5° S
- 🟣 Arctic Circle: 66.5° N
- ⚪ Antarctic Circle: 66.5° S
- 📍 Prime Meridian: 0° Longitude
- 🕒 Int. Date Line: ~180° Longitude
CLASSROOM ASSEMBLY GUIDE: Trim right/bottom overlap tabs on dashed line, align registration crosshairs (✛), and tape or glue panels in 4×3 order (A1-A4 top, B1-B4 middle, C1-C4 bottom).
✓ Complete 12-Panel Set
GRID POSITION:
C4
180° 150°W 120°W 90°W 60°W
← Aligns with PANEL C3 ↑ Aligns with PANEL B4 ✓ FINAL PANEL (BOTTOM RIGHT)