Political Map of the World, April 2001

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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90

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60

90

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180

ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Ellesmere Island
Qaanaaq (Thule)

ARCTIC OCEAN
Greenland Sea
Baffin Bay
Baffin Island Longyearbyen Svalbard
(NORWAY)

FRANZ JOSEF LAND

SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA

ARCTIC OCEAN
Laptev Sea
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Beaufort Sea
Barrow

Banks Island Victoria Island

ISLANDS
Kaujuitoq
(Resolute)

Greenland
(DENMARK)
Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Barents Sea

NOVAYA ZEMLYA

Kara Sea

East Siberian Sea

Tiksi Noril'sk

Wrangel Island

Norwegian Sea
NORWAY SWEDEN
Bergen

Chukchi
Cherskiy

Murmansk
White Sea

Sea

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nome

Arctic Circle (6633')

Great Bear Lake
Yellowknife
(Frobisher Bay)

U. S.
Anchorage

Fairbanks

Iqaluit

Whitehorse

Great Slave Lake

Churchill

Davis Strait

Nuuk (Godthb)

Denmark Strait

ICELAND Reykjavk Trshavn

Rockall
(U.K.)

Anadyr' Arkhangel'sk

Faroe Islands
(DEN.)

60

Gulf of Alaska

Juneau

Hudson Bay
Labrador Sea

Oslo

Gulf of Bothnia

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

R U S S I A
Krasnoyarsk Novosibirsk Barnaul Irkutsk Qaraghandy (Karaganda)

Yakutsk Magadan 60

Stockholm

CANADA
Edmonton Calgary Vancouver Seattle Winnipeg

TIA ALEU

LAN N IS

DS

Lake 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

Moscow Minsk

Dublin IRELAND Island of Newfoundland

Celtic Sea

Isle of Man (U.K.)

Manchester

KINGDOM
London

POLAND Warsaw Prague

Lodz Krakw

Sea of Okhotsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Sakhalin Khabarovsk

BELARUS
L'viv

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
(U.S.)

Brussels Paris
BELGIUM LUX.

Lake Superior
Minneapolis

Portland

Lake Michigan
Detroit Cleveland Columbus

Lake Huron Ottawa

Toronto

Qubec Montral

Gulf of St. Lawrence

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

GERMANY Luxembourg
Munich
LIECH.

Kiev

Astana

CZECH REP. AUSTRIA

FRANCE
St. Pierre and Miquelon
(FRANCE)

SWITZ.

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Tijuana Mexicali
30

Milwaukee Salt Lake City Denver Chicago Indianapolis St. Louis

Lake Ontario
Boston

Halifax

Bay of Biscay

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
)

SLOVAKIA

UKRAINE

Kharkiv Volgograd Rostov Sea of Azov GEORGIA Atyrau (Atyrau)

KAZAKHSTAN
Aral Sea

Lake Balkhash

Ulaanbaatar

MONGOLIA
rmqi

KURIL ISLANDS

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

BOS. & HERZ.

New York Philadelphia

Lake Erie

Bilbao

Marseille

Corsica
(FR.)

ITALY Sarajevo
Naples

YUGO.

Sofia

UNITED
Phoenix El Paso Ciudad Jurez Dallas

STATES
New Orleans

Washington, D.C.

Baltimore

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

AZORES (PORT.) MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)

PORTUGAL Lisbon

Madrid

SPAIN
Sevilla

Barcelona Valencia
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)

Rome

Tirana

ALB.

Skopje

BULGARIA

Black Sea
Istanbul Bursa Konya

Almaty

T'bilisi Yerevan

Sardinia
(IT.)

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Ankara

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Caspian Sea

UZBEKISTAN

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
Kashi Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
Indian claim

Palermo Sicily
(IT.)

GREECE Athens

Izmir

TURKEY
Adana Aleppo
LEB.

Baku
Tabriz

TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat
Mashhad

Tashkent

Baotou

Beijing
Taiyuan Tianjin Jinan Zhengzhou Xi'an Nanjing Qingdao

NORTH KOREA P'yongyang

)

Sea of Japan

NORTH
JAPAN
Tokyo
Yokohama

Ceuta (SP.)

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

Oran

Algiers

Atlanta Bermuda
(U.K.)

Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA Tripoli

Nicosia
Crete
(GR.)

Casablanca

Rabat

Mediterranean Sea
- Banghazi

CYPRUS

SYRIA

Mosul Karkuk

Lanzhou

Beirut

Damascus

IRAQ

Tehran
Esfahan

Kabul

Marrakech

San Antonio

ALGERIA
Laayoune (El Aain)

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Honolulu

Mazatln

Havana
Len Mrida Veracruz Oaxaca Cancn

Aswan
Red Sea

QATAR

MEXICO
Guadalajara

Turks and Caicos Islands

(U.K.)

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

CUBA
Cayman Is.
(U.K.)

Mexico
Acapulco

Puebla

Johnston Atoll
(U.S.)

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

Muscat

Karachi - Ahmadabad Nagpur

BANGLADESH
Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta)

Guangzhou

(J

Monterrey

Matamoros

Gulf of Mexico

AP

Kunming

Miami

THE BAHAMAS Nassau

LIBYA

Kuwait

Shiraz

Western Sahara

EGYPT

SAUDI

Manama Riyadh

Doha Abu Dhabi

BAHRAIN

Persian Gulf

PAKISTAN
OMAN

NEPAL
Lucknow Kanpur

Chongqing

Changsha Guiyang

Nanchang

East China Sea

Okinawa

Houston

CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)

Al Jizah

Cairo

KUWAIT

New Delhi
Jaipur

Hangzhou

IS L A N D S AN )

Jacksonville

MOROCCO

Tel Aviv-Yafo ISRAEL Alexandria Jerusalem Amman

Baghdad
Al Basrah

JORDAN

IRAN

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad
Kandahar Lahore Quetta

Chinese line of control

CHINA
Chengdu Lhasa BHUTAN

Yellow Sea

Pusan

Seoul SOUTH KOREA

Nagoya Osaka Fukuoka

PACIFIC OCEAN
30

NA

Wuhan

Shanghai

M PO
(JA

H - S

N PA

Kathmandu

Thimphu

Midway Islands Marcus Island

(JAPAN) (U.S.)

OT

Taipei Taiwan

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

OMAN
Mumbai (Bombay)

Nouakchott
CAPE VERDE

MAURITANIA

MALI
Tombouctou

Port Sudan

Pune

INDIA
- Hyderabad

BURMA
Rangoon
Chiang Mai

Hanoi

Nanning

LAOS

Vientiane Tonkin

Gulf of

Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R. S.A.R.

Hainan Dao
PARACEL ISLANDS

Philippine Sea
Northern Mariana Islands
(U.S.)

Wake Island
(U.S.)

GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua

Clipperton Island
(FRANCE)

Caribbean Sea

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

(NETH.)

Aruba

COSTA RICA

Barranquilla San Jos Cartagena Colon

Maracaibo

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

Praia

Dakar

NIGER

Port-of-Spain

Caracas

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

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

Panama PANAMA
Medelln
Isla de Malpelo

Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)

VENEZUELA

Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI) Jarvis Island

(U.S.)

Cali

COLOMBIA

Bogot

Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne

Penedos de So Pedro e So Paulo

(BRAZIL)

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 Gulf of Guinea

SENEGAL

Niamey

CHAD

Omdurman

Khartoum

ERITREA

Asmara

Sanaa

YEMEN

Bay of

SUDAN
Addis Ababa

DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden

Djibouti

(YEMEN)

Socotra

Arabian Sea

Bangalore Chennai (Madras)

LAKSHADWEEP
(INDIA)

Bengal
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)

THAILAND
Bangkok

Hue

VIETNAM

CAMBODIA

South China Sea

Manila

Saipan Hagta

PHILIPPINES
Cebu

Guam
(U.S.)

Berbera

Andaman Sea Laccadive Sea

ETHIOPIA
Juba

Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand

Ho Chi Minh City

SPRATLY ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Davao

MARSHALL ISLANDS
Majuro

Colombo SRI LANKA

SOMALIA
MALDIVES
Mogadishu

NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)

Koror

Palikir

Male

Medan

Equator
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(ECUADOR)

Quito ECUADOR
Guayaquil Iquitos Manaus Belm So Lus Teresina Fortaleza Arquiplago de Fernando de Noronha
(BRAZIL)

Equator

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tome

(EQUA. GUI.)

Annobon

Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO Brazzaville

ANGOLA
(Cabinda)

Kisangani

Kampala

UGANDA KENYA
Nairobi
Mombasa

Kuala Lumpur M A

Bandar Seri Begawan

BRUNEI

PALAU
Celebes Sea
Tarawa

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

Singapore SINGAPORE
Pontianak Palembang

Equator
Yaren NAURU District
Makassar

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

RWANDA Kigali

Natal Recife

Kinshasa

OF THE CONGO

Lake Victoria Bujumbura

BURUNDI

Victoria

K I R I B A T I

Lake Tanganyika

TANZANIA
Lake Nyasa

Dar es Salaam

British Indian Ocean Territory

(U.K.)

I
Diego Garcia

N
Jakarta
Bandung

LES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

Trujillo

PERU
Lima
Cusco

BRAZIL
Lago Titicaca

(St. Helena) Macei

Ascension

Luanda
Lubumbashi

SEYCHELLES
Moroni
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)

Semarang Surabaya

Java Sea

S
Banda Sea

I
Arafura Sea

K I R I B A T I

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Port Moresby
t Grea

SOLOMON ISLANDS
Honiara

Glorioso Islands
(FRANCE)

Christmas Island

(temporarily administered by the UN)

East Timor

TUVALU
Wallis and Futuna

Funafuti

Cook Islands
(N.Z.)

Salvador

ANGOLA

SOCIETY ISLANDS
(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)

Arequipa

La Paz

BOLIVIA
Sucre

Goinia

Braslia

SOUTH ATLANTIC
Martin Vaz Trindade
(BRAZIL) (BRAZIL)

(St. Helena)

St. Helena

Namibe

ZAMBIA
Lusaka

Lilongwe
MALAWI

Mayotte

COMOROS

Tromelin Island
(FRANCE)

INDIAN OCEAN

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

(AUSTL.)

(AUSTL.)

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

Timor Sea

Tokelau (N.Z.)

Darwin
Gulf of Carpentaria

Juan de Nova Island (FR.)

Coral Sea
Coral Sea Islands
(AUSTL.)

SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago

American Samoa
(U.S.)

Barrier

Santa Cruz

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

(FRANCE)
LES TUBUAI
(Fr. Poly.)

OCEAN
Walvis Bay

NAMIBIA
Windhoek

ZIMBABWE BOTSWANA
Gaborone Pretoria

Harare

MOZAMBIQUE
Beira
Bassas da India
(FRANCE)

Cairns

VANUATU
Port-Vila
New Caledonia (FRANCE)

FIJI
Suva

Mozambique Channel

Antananarivo

MADAGASCAR

SaintDenis
Reunion
(FRANCE)

Port Louis MAURITIUS

Re ef

Niue (N.Z.)

Nuku'alofa

PARAGUAY
Isla Sala y Gmez (CHILE) San Miguel de Tucumn

Rio de Janeiro So Paulo Curitiba

Europa Island
(FRANCE)

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Alice Springs

Noumea

TONGA

Adamstown

Pitcairn Islands (U.K.) Easter Island (CHILE)

Asuncin

Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)

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

Norfolk Island

(AUSTL.)

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)

CHILE
ARCHIPILAGO JUAN FERNNDEZ (CHILE) Concepcin

Crdoba Mendoza Rosario

AFRICA
URUGUAY
La Plata

30

Lord Howe Island

(AUSTL.)

Santiago

Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA
Baha Blanca

Montevideo

Cape Town

Port Elizabeth

Adelaide

Canberra
Melbourne

Sydney Auckland

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

le Amsterdam

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena) Gough Island

(St. Helena)

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

le Saint-Paul

Great Australian Bight

Tasmania
Hobart

Puerto Montt

Tasman Sea

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) Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.) (FRANCE)

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

Stanley
Punta Arenas

AUCKLAND ISLANDS (N.Z.)

SNARES ISLANDS (N.Z.)

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

Bouvet Island (NORWAY)

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.)

Campbell Island (N.Z.)

60

Antarctic Circle (6633')

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Bellingshausen Sea

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Amery Ice Shelf

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (6633')

Amundsen Sea Ross Sea

Weddell Sea
Ross Sea
Ronne Ice Shelf

April 2001
* Twenty

Ross Ice Shelf

150
120

A n t a r c t i c a*
60

Ross Ice Shelf

60

of 27 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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