Alaska

Arizona

Utah

Yukon

Northwest Territories

District of Columbia

Florida

Idaho

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Washington

Wyoming

Nunavut

Montana

Maine

North Dakota

Kentucky

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Delaware

Prince Edward Island

Saskatchewan

Mississippi

West Virginia

Nebraska

Texas

Missouri

Louisiana

North Carolina

Oregon

New Brunswick

Alabama

New Mexico

Kansas

Wisconsin

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

New Jersey

South Carolina

Michigan

Alberta

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Colorado

Nevada

Massachusetts

Georgia

New York

Maryland

Québec

Manitoba

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Ontario

California

Arkansas

South Dakota

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

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A map shows major drainage basins depicted as blue dashed lines. Some of the notable basins include Columbia, Colorado in North America; Amazon, Orinoco in South America; Niger in Africa; Danube in Europe; Indus in Asia; and Murray-Darling in Australia.

The world's drainage basins: land areas where surface water converges to a single point

Major Drainage Basins

World

USGS

A map illustrates high- and low-pressure zones worldwide for January, with high-pressure zones marked in red and low-pressure zones in blue.

Locations of high- and low-atmospheric pressure at mean sea level during January.

High- and Low-Pressure Zones, January

High-Pressure Zones are found in Western North America (1,022 millibars), Northwest Africa (1,024 millibars), North-central Asia (1,044 millibars), Southeast Pacific (1,018 millibars), South Atlantic (1,022 millibars), South Indian Ocean (1,022 millibars) Low-Pressure Zones are found in North Pacific near the Aleutian Islands (984 millibars), North Atlantic near Greenland and Iceland (992 millibars), along the equator in the Central Pacific Ocean, Central Africa, and Western Pacific Ocean, and around the coasts of Antarctica (three lows at 980 millibars).

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American Samoa (U.S.)

Australia

Fiji

French Polynesia (France)

Kiribati

Marshall Is.

Micronesia

Nauru

New Zealand

Northern Mariana Is. (U.S.)

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Is.

Australia & Oceania

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba (Neth.)

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda (U.K.)

British Virgin Is. (U.K.)

Cayman Is. (U.K.)

Cuba

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Haiti

Jamaica

Seychelles

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Martin (France)

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

U.S. Virgin Is. (U.S.)

Caribbean

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

Macau S.A.R. (China)

Mongolia

Nepal

South Korea

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Andorra

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

Northern Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Europe

Argentina

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Guyana

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Latin America

Curaçao (Neth.)

Mauritania

Mauritius

New Caledonia (France)

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

São Tomé and Príncipe

Sint Maarten (Neth.)

Tonga

Vanuatu

Wallis and Futuna Is. (France)

Canada

Mexico

North America

Major Drainage Basins	High- and Low-Pressure Zones, January	Tourism Revenues			Coal Production (%)
Major Drainage Basins	High	Class	Rank	Millions of U.S. dollars	Class	Rank	Percent of world production

57.2%	1