National Geographic Middle East Map
This map carries physical and political detail on one sheet, so the Zagros Mountains, the sand seas of the Arabian Peninsula, and the Tigris and Euphrates read as clearly as the borders drawn across them. It is a plate lifted from National Geographic’s Atlas of the World, 11th Edition, now sold on its own for wall use.
- Published by National Geographic at 1:3,444,000 scale
- Drawn in Conic projection, which projects the earth onto a cone with its vertex above a pole, then unrolls it flat
- Shaded relief and the bright blue-ocean palette National Geographic has used on wall maps for more than 75 years
Geography and environmental science teachers use it because the terrain gives students a genuine sense of how the region actually looks. Map Shop finishes it in paper, 1.7mil satin-gloss lamination that takes wet-erase markers, foam core mounting, rails, or framing in black or walnut molding.

