# 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.

- Category: Live planet · by TeleGeography
- Website: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
- Live data: no
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- No official API. Do not scrape the site; use it by hand or through its downloads.

## Data and license

- License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (map references and screen captures); underlying data paid licence (https://www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map); covers References to the map, its URLs and screen captures; not the underlying cable database
- Commercial use unclear
- Credit required
- No embedding
- Quote (license): "Any reference to a TeleGeography map, URL, or any related screen capture is made available under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)." (https://www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map)
- Quote (attribution): "TeleGeography must be properly credited." (https://www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map)
- Quote (embed): "TeleGeography's interactive cable map is not an embeddable resource." (https://www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map)
- Quote (api_official): "Access to the underlying databases remains restricted to paying subscribers." (https://www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map)

## Rules for an agent

- 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.

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/submarine-cable-map/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.