ATLAS · SEAPORTS
Every Seaport on Earth
The world’s harbours on one map: 3,804ports the global shipping network actually uses — from the deep-water mega-ports that handle the biggest container ships down to the small coastal and river harbours — across 193 countries. Each point is coloured by harbour size, so the great gateways stand out from the thousands of minor ports around them. Data is public-domain from the NGA World Port Index, a snapshot taken 2026-06-22.
What the colours mean
Every port is tinted by its harbour size— a rating in the World Port Index for the scale of the harbour and the vessels it can take. Amber marks the large deep-water ports, the ones that handle the biggest ships. Charge-blue is medium ports, radar-green is small, and a dim slate is the very small harbours that make up the bulk of the index. What that rating means, and why a tiny country can run a giant port, is worth two minutes:
How seaports are sized & classified, explained →Ports by country
Where the world’s harbours cluster. Open a country for its biggest ports, the spread of harbour sizes, and the seas and rivers they sit on.
Every country & territory with a port
United States · Canada · United Kingdom · Japan · Norway · Indonesia · Italy · Sweden · Philippines · Denmark · Russia · Australia · China · France · Greece · India · Turkey · Spain · Brazil · Iceland · Chile · Argentina · Finland · Germany · Malaysia · Mexico · Cuba · Egypt · Venezuela · Nigeria · Ukraine · Greenland · New Zealand · Papua New Guinea · Angola · Ireland · Thailand · Estonia · Peru · United Arab Emirates · Iran · Netherlands · Portugal · Algeria · Dominican Republic · Croatia · Saudi Arabia · Tunisia · Vietnam · Colombia · Libya · Puerto Rico · South Korea · Madagascar · Morocco · Panama · Jamaica · Mozambique · Romania · Gabon · North Korea · Poland · Trinidad and Tobago · Yemen · Faroe Islands · Antarctica · Honduras · South Africa · Taiwan · Tanzania · Uruguay · Belgium · Cameroon · Equatorial Guinea · Myanmar · Oman · Qatar · Bahamas · Costa Rica · Cyprus · Ecuador · French Polynesia · Iraq · Kuwait · Senegal · Solomon Islands · Somalia · Sri Lanka · U.S. Virgin Islands · Brunei · Côte d'Ivoire · Fiji · Haiti · Israel · Latvia · Lebanon · Nicaragua · Singapore · Albania · Bahrain · Bermuda · Caribbean Netherlands · Comoros · Curaçao · Ghana · Guadeloupe · Guinea · Kenya · Liberia · Micronesia · Montenegro · Republic of the Congo · Réunion · Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha · Sudan · Suriname · Democratic Republic of the Congo · El Salvador · Georgia · Guatemala · Guernsey · Guyana · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · New Caledonia · Northern Mariana Islands · Pakistan · Saint Lucia · Sierra Leone · SJ · South Georgia · Syria · Tonga · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Minor Outlying Islands · Vanuatu · Aruba · Bangladesh · Belize · Bulgaria · Cambodia · Cape Verde · Cayman Islands · Djibouti · Dominica · Eritrea · Guinea-Bissau · Isle of Man · Lithuania · Malta · Mauritania · Mauritius · Namibia · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · São Tomé and Principe · Sint Maarten · Slovenia · Togo · Western Sahara (disputed territory) · American Samoa · Antigua and Barbuda · Barbados · Benin · Bosnia and Herzegovina · British Indian Ocean Territory · British Virgin Islands · Christmas Island · Cook Islands · Falkland Islands · French Guiana · Gambia · Gibraltar · Grenada · Guam · Hong Kong · Jersey · Jordan · Macau · Maldives · Martinique · Monaco · Nauru · Niue · Norfolk Island · Palau · Paraguay · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · Seychelles · Timor-Leste · Tuvalu · Wallis and Futuna
About this data
Port locations, names and harbour sizes come from the World Port Index (Pub 150), the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s global register of ocean and major inland ports — a public-domain reference used in marine navigation. The size rating reflects the physical scale of each harbour, not its cargo throughput, so a busy container terminal and a large naval harbour can share a rating. This is a dated snapshot of where ports are, not a live ship-tracking feed (for vessels under way, see the live ships overlay on the Earth canvas). We refresh the snapshot periodically rather than calling NGA on every visit.