Political Map of the World, April 2006

AUSTRALIA Bermuda Sicily / AZORES Independent state Dependency or area of special sovereignty Island / island group Capital
Scale 1:35,000,000 Robinson Projection standard parallels 38N and 38S
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ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ellesmere Island
Qaanaaq (Thule)

ARCTIC OCEAN
Longyearbyen

FRANZ JOSEF LAND

SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA

ARCTIC OCEAN

Beaufort Sea
Barrow

Banks Island Victoria Island

ISLANDS
Kaujuitoq
(Resolute)

Greenland Sea
Baffin Bay
Baffin Island

Svalbard
(NORWAY)

NOVAYA ZEMLYA

Kara Sea

Laptev Sea

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Greenland
(DENMARK)
Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Barents Sea Norwegian Sea

NORWAY
Faroe Islands Tiksi Murmansk
White Sea

East Siberian Sea

Noril'sk

Wrangel Island

Chukchi
Cherskiy

Sea

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nome

Arctic Circle (6633')

Great Bear Lake
Yellowknife Iqaluit
(Frobisher Bay)

U. S.
Anchorage

Fairbanks

Davis Strait

Nuuk (Godthb)

Denmark Strait

ICELAND Reykjavk Trshavn

(DEN.)

Anadyr' Arkhangel'sk

SWEDEN
Bergen
Gulf of Bothnia

FINLAND
Helsinki
Tallinn EST.
St. Petersburg Yaroslavl' Nizhniy Novgorod Perm' Yekaterinburg Kazan' Ufa Samara Voronezh L'viv Saratov Chelyabinsk Omsk

Whitehorse
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Great Slave Lake

Churchill

R U S S I A
Moscow
Krasnoyarsk Novosibirsk Barnaul Irkutsk

Yakutsk Magadan 60

Gulf of Alaska

Hudson Bay
Labrador Sea

Oslo Stockholm

Juneau

Rockall
(U.K.)

CANADA
TIA ALEU LAN N IS DS
Edmonton

Lake Winnipeg
Calgary Vancouver Seattle Portland Winnipeg

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

Glasgow Belfast

UNITED

North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen

Amsterdam
NETH. Lille Hamburg Cologne Berlin

RUSSIA

Baltic Riga LAT. Sea LITH.

Bering Sea
Lake Baikal

Vilnius

Dublin IRELAND Island of Newfoundland

Celtic Sea

Isle of Man (U.K.)

Manchester

Minsk BELARUS Kiev

Sea of Okhotsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Sakhalin

KINGDOM
London

POLAND Warsaw
Lodz

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
(U.S.)

Astana
Qaraghandy (Karaganda) Khabarovsk

Brussels Paris
BELGIUM LUX.

Guernsey (U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)

GERMANY Luxembourg
Munich
LIECH.

Prague
CZECH REP. AUSTRIA

Krakw
SLOVAKIA

UKRAINE

Kharkiv Volgograd Rostov Sea of Azov GEORGIA Atyrau (Atyrau)

Lake Superior
Minneapolis

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Lake Michigan
Detroit Cleveland Columbus

Lake Huron Ottawa

Toronto

Qubec Montral Halifax

St. Pierre and Miquelon
(FRANCE)

FRANCE
Bay of Biscay

SWITZ.

NORTH
Salt Lake City

Milwaukee Chicago Denver St. Louis San Francisco Indianapolis

Lake Ontario
Boston

Lyon Bordeaux
ANDORRA

MONACO

Turin MARINO
VATICAN CITY

Bratislava MOLDOVA Donets'k Budapest Chisinau HUNGARY Bern Ljubljana ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA Milan Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest SAN Vienna
BOS. & HER.

KAZAKHSTAN
Lake Balkhash Aral Sea
Almaty rmqi

Ulaanbaatar

KURIL ISLANDS Harbin Changchun Vladivostok Shenyang Sapporo Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

MONGOLIA

Bilbao

Marseille Barcelona Valencia

BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)

PACIFIC OCEAN
Los Angeles San Diego Tijuana Mexicali Ciudad Jurez
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New York Philadelphia Baltimore

Lake Erie

Corsica
(FR.)

ITALY Sarajevo
Rome
ALB.

SER.& MONT.

Sofia

Black Sea
Istanbul Bursa Izmir

BULGARIA

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

AZORES (PORT.) MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)

PORTUGAL Lisbon

Madrid

Skopje
MACEDONIA

Tbilisi

Caspian Sea

UZBEKISTAN

Naples
Sardinia
(IT.)

Tirana

SPAIN
Sevilla

Ankara

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
Kashi Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
1972 Line of Control Line of Actual Control Indian claim

Baotou

Yerevan
Tabriz Aleppo Mosul Kirkuk

UNITED
Phoenix El Paso Houston San Antonio Dallas

STATES
Atlanta

Washington, D.C.

Palermo Sicily

GREECE Athens
(IT.)

TURKEY
Konya Adana

Baku

TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat
Mashhad

Tashkent

Beijing
Taiyuan Tianjin Jinan Zhengzhou Xi'an Nanjing Qingdao

NORTH KOREA Pyongyang Seoul SOUTH KOREA

Pusan

Sea of Japan

NORTH
JAPAN
Tokyo

Gibraltar(U.K.) Ceuta (SP.) Melilla

(SP.)

Algiers
Oran

Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA Tripoli

Lanzhou

Nicosia
Crete
(GR.)

Casablanca

Bermuda
(U.K.)

Rabat

Mediterranean Sea
- Banghazi

CYPRUS

LEB.

SYRIA
Damascus

Tehran
Esfahan

Beirut

IRAQ
Al Basrah

Kabul

Marrakech

CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)

ALGERIA
Laayoune (El Aain)

Al Jizah

Kuwait

KUWAIT
Persian Gulf

Shiraz

(J

Monterrey

Matamoros

Gulf of Mexico
Havana

AP

Miami

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Honolulu

THE BAHAMAS Nassau

Turks and Caicos Islands

LIBYA

PAKISTAN
Abu Dhabi
OMAN

New Delhi
Jaipur Lucknow

NEPAL
Kanpur

Lhasa BHUTAN

Chongqing

Changsha Guiyang

Nanchang

East China Sea

Okinawa

Cairo

JORDAN

Hangzhou

IS L A N D S AN )

New Orleans

Jacksonville

MOROCCO

Tel Aviv-Yafo ISRAEL Alexandria Jerusalem Amman

Baghdad

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

CHINA
Chengdu

Yellow Sea

Nagoya Osaka Fukuoka

Yokohama

PACIFIC OCEAN
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IRAN

Kandahar Quetta

NA

Lahore

Wuhan

Shanghai

M PO
(JA

H - S

N) PA

Western Sahara

Mazatln

Aswan
Red Sea

Kunming

Taipei Guangzhou
R
Y

EGYPT

SAUDI

BAHRAIN

Kathmandu

Thimphu

Manama Doha Riyadh

QATAR

Midway Islands
(U.S.)

OT

MEXICO
Len Guadalajara Mrida Veracruz

Cancn

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
(U.S.) Johnston Atoll
(U.S.) ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)

CUBA
Cayman Is.
(U.K.)

(U.K.)

Mexico
Acapulco

Puebla Oaxaca

BELIZE Belmopan

Port-au- REPUBLIC Prince JAMAICA Kingston Navassa HAITI Santo Puerto Domingo Rico Island
(U.S.)

DOMINICAN

British Virgin Islands (U.K.) Anguilla (U.K.) ST. KITTS AND NEVIS ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.) DOMINICA

Jiddah Mecca

ARABIA

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Karachi

BANGLADESH
- Ahmadabad Nagpur Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta) Mandalay Nanning Taiwan Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R. S.A.R.

Marcus Island
(JAPAN)

Muscat

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

OMAN
Mumbai (Bombay)

BURMA

Hanoi

Nouakchott
CAPE VERDE

MAURITANIA MALI
Tombouctou

Port Sudan

INDIA
Pune - Hyderabad

Pyinmana Chiang Mai

LAOS

Vientiane Tonkin

Gulf of

Philippine Sea
Northern Mariana Islands
(U.S.)

Wake Island
(U.S.)

Hainan Dao
PARACEL ISLANDS

GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua

Clipperton Island
(FRANCE)

(U.S.) Montserrat
(U.K.)

NIGER

Omdurman

Caribbean Sea

Aruba

(NETH.)

COSTA RICA

Barranquilla San Jos Cartagena Colon

Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA

Dakar Praia

Maracaibo

Port-of-Spain
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Caracas

Panama PANAMA
Medelln
Isla de Malpelo

Kingman Reef (U.S.) Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)

VENEZUELA

Bogot
Cali

COLOMBIA

Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne

0 Jarvis Island
(U.S.)

Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)

SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

Banjul BURKINA Bamako FASO THE GAMBIA Kano Ouagadougou Bissau N'Djamena GUINEA GUINEA-BISSAU BENIN NIGERIA Conakry Abuja CTE TOGO Freetown Ogbomoso D'IVOIRE GHANA SIERRA Ibadan Yamoussoukro CENTRAL LEONE Lagos Lom AFRICAN REPUBLIC Accra Monrovia PortoAbidjan CAMEROON LIBERIA Novo Bangui Douala Malabo Yaound EQUATORIAL GUINEA PENEDOS DE Gulf of Guinea
(BRAZIL)

SENEGAL

Niamey

CHAD

ERITREA

Khartoum

Asmara

Sanaa
Aden DJIBOUTI

YEMEN

Bay of

Rangoon

Hue

THAILAND
Bangkok
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)

SUDAN
Addis Ababa

Gulf of Aden

Djibouti
Berbera

(YEMEN)

Socotra

Arabian Sea
LAKSHADWEEP
(INDIA)

Bengal
Bangalore Chennai (Madras)

VIETNAM

Manila
Guam

Saipan Hagta

CAMBODIA

South China Sea

Cebu
SPRATLY ISLANDS

PHILIPPINES

(U.S.)

Andaman Sea Laccadive Sea

Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand

Ho Chi Minh City

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Davao

MARSHALL ISLANDS
Majuro

ETHIOPIA
Juba

Colombo SRI LANKA

SOMALIA
Male

NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)

Koror

Palikir

Bandar Seri Begawan

Medan

PALAU
Celebes Sea
Tarawa

MALDIVES UGANDA
Kampala Mogadishu

Equator
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(ECUADOR)

Quito ECUADOR
Guayaquil Iquitos Manaus Belm So Lus Fortaleza Natal ARQUIPLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
(BRAZIL)

Equator

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tome
Annobon
(EQUA. GUI.)

Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO Brazzaville

ANGOLA
(Cabinda)

Kisangani

KENYA
Nairobi
Mombasa

Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE

Palembang

BRUNEI

Equator
Yaren NAURU District

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
RWANDA Kigali

Pontianak

Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0

Lake Victoria Bujumbura

BURUNDI Dodoma

K I R I B A T I

Teresina

Kinshasa

OF THE CONGO
Lake Tanganyika

Victoria

British Indian Ocean Territory

(U.K.)

I
Diego Garcia

N
Jakarta
Bandung

Makassar

E
Dili
EAST TIMOR

S
Banda Sea

I
Arafura Sea

Java Sea
Semarang Surabaya

K I R I B A T I

LES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

Trujillo

Recife

TANZANIA
Lake Nyasa

Dar es Salaam

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Port Moresby
t Grea

Ascension
(St. Helena)

PERU
Lima
Cusco

BRAZIL
Lago Titicaca

Luanda
Lubumbashi

SEYCHELLES
Moroni
Mayotte
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)

SOLOMON ISLANDS
Honiara

Funafuti

Macei

TUVALU

Tokelau (N.Z.)

Glorioso Islands
(FRANCE)

Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands

(AUSTL.)

ANGOLA
Salvador

COMOROS

Timor Sea
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
(AUSTL.)

Darwin
Gulf of Carpentaria

Cook Islands
(N.Z.)

SOCIETY ISLANDS
(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)

La Paz

Braslia
Goinia

SOUTH ATLANTIC
Martin Vaz Trindade
(BRAZIL) (BRAZIL)

ZAMBIA
St. Helena
(St. Helena) Namibe

Lilongwe
MALAWI

Tromelin Island
Juan de Nova Island (FR.) (FRANCE)

INDIAN OCEAN

(AUSTL.)

Lusaka Harare

Coral Sea
VANUATU
Re ef

Wallis and Futuna

SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago

American Samoa
(U.S.)

Barrier

Arequipa

BOLIVIA
Santa Cruz Sucre

FIJI
Suva

F r e n c h

P o l y n e s i a
Tropic of Capricorn (2327')
Antofagasta Isla San Felx (CHILE)

Belo Horizonte

MOZAMBIQUE
Beira

Cairns Coral Sea Islands

(AUSTL.)

Antananarivo

Port-Vila
New Caledonia (FRANCE)

(FRANCE)

OCEAN
Walvis Bay

ZIMBABWE NAMIBIA
Windhoek

Mozambique Channel
Bassas da India
(FRANCE)

MADAGASCAR

SaintDenis
Reunion
(FRANCE)

Port Louis MAURITIUS

Niue (N.Z.)

Nuku'alofa

PARAGUAY
Asuncin
Easter Island (CHILE) Isla Sala y Gmez (CHILE) Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE) San Miguel de Tucumn

Rio de Janeiro So Paulo Curitiba

BOTSWANA
Gaborone Pretoria

Europa Island
(FRANCE)

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Alice Springs

Noumea

TONGA

LES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)

Adamstown

Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)

St. Helena
(U.K.)
Prto Alegre

Maputo

Johannesburg

30

LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru

Mbabane SWAZILAND
Durban Perth

A U S T R A L I A
Brisbane Lord Howe Island
(AUSTL.)

Norfolk Island
(AUSTL.)

SOUTH PACIFIC
30

CHILE
ARCHIPILAGO JUAN FERNNDEZ (CHILE) Concepcin

Crdoba Mendoza Rosario

AFRICA
URUGUAY
La Plata

OCEAN

KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)

Santiago

Buenos Aires Montevideo

Cape Town

Port Elizabeth

Adelaide

Canberra
Melbourne

Sydney Auckland

ARGENTINA
Baha Blanca

le Amsterdam
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena) Gough Island

(St. Helena)

le Saint-Paul
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Great Australian Bight

Tasmania

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

Puerto Montt

Tasman Sea
Hobart

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
Christchurch CHATHAM ISLANDS (N.Z.)

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Comodoro Rivadavia PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS (SOUTH AFRICA) LES CROZET (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) LES KERGUELEN (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Bouvet Island (NORWAY) Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.) (FRANCE)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)

SNARES ISLANDS (N.Z.) AUCKLAND ISLANDS (N.Z.) Campbell Island (N.Z.)

BOUNTY ISLANDS (N.Z.) ANTIPODES ISLANDS (N.Z.)

Stanley
Punta Arenas

Scotia Sea
60

Drake Passage

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA) SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS

Macquarie Island (AUSTL.)

60

Antarctic Circle (6633')

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Bellingshausen Sea Amundsen Sea

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Amery Ice Shelf

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (6633')

Weddell Sea
Ross Sea
Ronne Ice Shelf

Ross Sea
Ross Ice Shelf
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April 2006
*Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the United States have reserved the right to do so) and they do not recognize the claims of the other nations.

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Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

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