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Submarine Cable Map

An interactive world map of the undersea fibre-optic cables and their landing stations, with owners, length and ready-for-service year for each system.

It shows how the internet physically crosses oceans, and which coastal towns your traffic actually passes through.

License unclear

Open submarinecablemap.com ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API: No official API
“Access to the underlying databases remains restricted to paying subscribers.” www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map
Data download: No bulk download found
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (map references and screen captures); underlying data paid licence References to the map, its URLs and screen captures; not the underlying cable database
Commercial use: Commercial use unclear
Credit: Credit required
“TeleGeography must be properly credited.” www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map
Embedding: No embedding
“TeleGeography's interactive cable map is not an embeddable resource.” www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map
Using the website: Free

Read on Submarine Cable Map's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand.

There is no public API: the JSON files the map loads are internal and the underlying database is for paying subscribers; use screenshots under CC BY-SA with a TeleGeography credit, or license the geocoded data.
Credit TeleGeography on any screenshot; reuse is CC BY-SA 4.0 (share alike).
Do not iframe the interactive map; it is not embeddable.
Do not harvest the map's internal JSON as a data source; the database is restricted to paying subscribers.

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/submarine-cable-map/agent.md before using Submarine Cable Map.

What you can build

An article or slide deck on internet geography using CC BY-SA screenshots of the map with a TeleGeography credit.
A latency or resilience study tool built on TeleGeography's paid geocoded data licence.
A 'which cables land in my country' explainer page that links to each cable's page on the map.

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