The new map of the world

ARCTIC OCEAN

On 9 July the Republic of South

Sudan became the worlds
newest country - instantly
making the worlds atlases out of
date. So heres your new guide
to the globe to pull out and keep

Svalbard
NORWAY

ARCTIC CIRCLE

ICELAND
Reykjavik

Alaska

US

UNITED

S TAT E S

Saint Pierre & Miquelon

FRANCE

Washington
NORTH
ATLANTIC
OCEAN

NORTH
PACIFIC
OCEAN

300 - 599

Bermuda
UK

200 - 299

Guadalupe Is
MEXICO

100 - 199

MEXICO
Nassau

TROPIC OF CANCER

Havana

25 - 49
Hawaii
US

0.1-24

Revillagigedo Islands
MEXICO

THE BAHAMAS

CUBA

Cayman Is.
UK
JAMAICA
BELIZE

Mexico City

No data

HAITI

HONDURAS
G UAT E M A L A
E L S A LVA D O R
Clipperton
FRANCE

NICARAGUA
COSTA
RICA

DOMINICAN
REP
Puerto Rico US
Virgin Islands UK
ST KITTS & NEVIS
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA
Montserrat
Guadeloupe FRA.
UK
DOMINICA
Martinique FRA.
ST LUCIA
BARBADOS
GRENADA
ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES

Caracas

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

VENEZUELA

PANAMA

Coco Is
COSTA RICA
Malpelo Is
COLOMBIA

Bogot

G U YA N A
SURINAME
FRENCH GUIANA

COLOMBIA

EQUATOR

Quito

Galapagos Islands
ECUADOR

ECUADOR

K I R I BAT I
PERU
Tokelau
NZ

BRAZIL

Lima
American
Samoa
US
Niue
NZ

La Paz
Sucre

Cook Islands
NEW ZEALAND
Pitcairn
UK

PARAGUAY
SOUTH
PACIFIC
OCEAN

Easter Is
CHILE

Asuncin

San Flix Is San Ambrosio Is

CHILE

I. Sala y Gmez
CHILE

CHILE
Juan Fernndez Islands
CHILE

About our map

Showing a spherical planet on a
flat piece of paper has troubled
cartographers for centuries. We
have used the Robinson
projection, developed by
Arthur Robinson in 1961 as a
way of showing the entire
world at once . The Mercator
projection - first developed in

Braslia

BOLIVIA

French Polynesia
FRANCE

TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

EUROPE

Novaya
Zemlya

People per square km

50 - 99

New Siberian Islands

DENMARK

Ottawa

600 - 14,999

Severnaya Zemlya

GREENLAND

CANADA

15,000+

ARCTIC OCEAN

Franz Josef Land

1 ANDORRA
2 MONACO
3 SWITZERLAND
4 LUXEMBOURG
5 BELGIUM
6 NETHERLANDS
7 LIECHTENSTEIN
8 SAN MARINO
9 VATICAN CITY
10 ALBANIA
11 MACEDONIA
12 KOSOVO
13 MONTENEGRO
14 SERBIA
15 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

Wrangel Is

ARCTIC CIRCLE

ARCTIC CIRCLE

FINLAND
Faroe Islands
DENMARK

NORWAY
Oslo

SWEDEN
Stockholm

Helsinki
Tallinn

RUSS I A N F E D E R AT I O N

25

16 CROATIA
17 SLOVENIA
18 AUSTRIA
19 HUNGARY
20 SLOVAKIA
21 CZECH REPUBLIC
22 MOLDOVA
23 LITHUANIA
24 LATVIA
25 ESTONIA
26 GEORGIA
27 ARMENIA
28 AZERBAIJAN
29 CYPRUS

Riga 24
Moscow
DENMARK
Copenhagen
23 Vilnius
Minsk
UK
Dublin
Berlin POLAND
Amsterdam
Warsaw
BELARUS
6
IRELAND London
Astana
GERMANY
5 Brussels
Kiev
21 Prague
Channel
20
UKRAINE
Vienna
Paris
4
Islands
K A Z A K H S TA N
Bratislava
7
22
Ulan Bator
UK
Budapest
18
Chisinau
19
FRANCE 3 Berne
ROMANIA
17
MONGOLIA
Belgrade Bucharest
ITALY
16 15 14
2
BULGARIA
8
UZBEKISTAN
Bishkek
12
1
26
Sofia
9
SPAIN
Tbilisi
KYRGYZSTAN
11
13
Rome
Tashkent
28 Baku
NORTH KOREA
10
Madrid
PORTUGAL
Ankara Yerevan 27
Azores
Beijing
Pyongyang
TURKMENISTAN
TAJIKISTAN
Lisbon
PORTUGAL
Dushanbe
TURKEY
Athens
Ashgabat
JAPAN
NORTH
Seoul
Tunis
Gibraltar
GREECE
PACIFIC
SOUTH KOREA
MALTA
UK
Tokyo
Algiers
SYRIA
Kabul
Tehran
IRAQ
29
OCEAN
CHINA
TUNISIA
Rabat
AFGHANISTAN
1 Beirut
Damascus
IRAN
Baghdad
Madeira
Jerusalem
Tripoli
Islamabad
MOROCCO
Amman
PORTUGAL
2 JORDAN
Cairo
New
3 Kuwait
BHUTAN
Canary Islands
NEPAL
Delhi
PAKISTAN
ALGERIA
SAUDI
SPAIN
Thimphu
Kathmandu
ARABIA
L I B YA
EGYPT
4
Doha
JAPAN
WESTERN
Taipei
6
5
BANGLADESH
SAHARA
Riyadh
TROPIC OF CANCER
TROPIC OF CANCER
Abu
Muscat
TA I WA N
Dacca
Hong Kong
Dhabi
Macau
INDIA
BURMA
OMAN
Hanoi
LAOS
Naypyidaw
MAURITANIA
MALI
Northern Mariana Is
Vientiane
SUDAN
Nouakchott
NIGER
US
Rangoon
CAPE VERDE
ERITREA
YEMEN
SENEGAL
CHAD
Khartoum
THAILAND
Manila
Sanaa
Asmara
Dakar
VIETNAM
Praia
Bangkok
Bamako
MARSHALL
Guam
Niamey
GAMBIA
Andaman
BURKINA
Socotra
CAMBODIA
ISLANDS
Bissau
N'Djamena
Islands
FASO Ougadougou
PHILIPPINES
YEMEN
Addis DJIBOUTI
GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA
Phnom
INDIA
BENIN N I G E R I A
Ababa
Conakry
Penh
SOMALIA
Majuro
GHANA
Nicobar
Freetown
FEDERATED STATES
IVORY
Abuja
SRI LANKA
SOUTH
Islands
SIERRA LEONE
ETHIOPIA
OF MICRONESIA
TOGO
Ngerulmud
COAST
CENTRAL
INDIA
SUDAN
Palikir
Porto-Novo
Monrovia
Accra
AFRICAN REP
BRUNEI
Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte
Lome
CAMEROON
Juba
LIBERIA
Tarawa
Kuala Lumpur
Bangui
Male
Yamoussoukro
Yaounde
PALAU
M
A
L
A
Y
S
I
A
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Mogadishu
UGANDA
MALDIVES
So Paulo
SINGAP ORE
KENYA
EQUATOR
SO TOM & PRINCIPE
EQUATOR
EQUATOR
EQUATOR
BRAZIL
Libreville
Kampala
D E M O C R AT I C
Borneo
GABON
Sumatra
Yaren
Nairobi
RWANDA
KIRIBATI
REPUBLIC
INDIAN
NAURU
CONGO
BURUNDI
Fernando de Noronha
I
N
D
O
N
E
S
I
A
OF THE
OCEAN
Brazzaville
CHAGOS
PAPUA NEW
BRAZIL
Victoria
Kinshasa
ARCHIPELAGO
CONGO
Dodoma
SOLOMON
Jakarta
GUINEA
UK
DIEGO GARCIA
Dar es Salaam
ISLANDS
Java
UK
TA N Z A N I A
SEYCHELLES
Ascension
Dili
Funafuti
Luanda
UK
Port
Honiara
EAST
Tokelau
TUVALU
Moresby
Christmas Is
COMOROS
TIMOR
NZ
AUSTRALIA
Moroni
ANGOLA
Cocos Islands
Wallis
&
Mayotte
SAMOA
MALAWI
AUSTRALIA
Futuna
FRANCE
Apia
Lilongwe
ZAMBIA
FRA.
VANUATU
Lusaka
Saint Helena
MIDDLE
EAST
MADAGASCAR
UK
Port Vila
TONGA
Suva
1 LEBANON
Harare MOZAMBIQUE
Antananarivo
ZIMBABWE
2
ISRAEL
&
OCCUPIED
FIJI
NAMIBIA
MAURITIUS
Martin Vaz Islands
Reunion
Nuku'alofa
New Caledonia
BRAZIL
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
FRANCE
FRANCE
BOTSWANA
Windhoek
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
3 KUWAIT
Gaborone
4 BAHRAIN
AUSTRALIA
SOUTH
SOUTH
Maputo
5 QATAR
Tshwane
ATLANTIC
PACIFIC
SWAZILAND
6
OCEAN
OCEAN
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
LESOTHO

Santiago

SOUTH AFRICA

U R U G U AY

Montevideo
Buenos Aires

Canberra

ARGENTINA

Tristan da Cunha
UK

1569 - is still used by many

online mapping services, such
as Google, but it does not
represent the earth well on
paper. You would not be able to
use this map to navigate across
the planet but it still represents
one of the clearest ways of
illustrating the globe

Amsterdam Is
Saint Paul Is
FRANCE

Gough
UK

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington

Crozet Islands
FRANCE

Prince Edward Islands

SOUTH AFRICA

Kerguelen Islands
FRANCE

Falkland Islands
UK
South Georgia
UK

Heard Island
AUSTRALIA

Bouvet
NORWAY
South Sandwich Islands
UK

South Orkney Islands

UK

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

ANTARCTIC CIRCLE

ANTARCTIC CIRCLE

A N TA RC T I C A

Republic of South Sudan

Newest countries

Biggest populations

Smallest populations

9 July, 2011

Population c.9.7m
Population density c.15.7
Area 619,745 sq km
Maternal mortality ratio 2,037 deaths per
100,000 live births - highest in the world
Trained/skilled midwife attending births 5%
Teenage pregnancies 204 per 1,000 females
aged 15-19
HIV rate 7%
SOURCES: UN POP DIVISION, WORLD BANK, UNHCR
GRAPHIC: JENNY RIDLEY, COPY & RESEARCH: SIMON ROGERS

Kosovo (not fully recognised)

17 February 2008

Russian Federation
25 December 1991

China

Montenegro
21 May 2006

Kazakhstan
16 December 1991

India

East Timor
20 May 2002

Croatia
8 October 1991

Became a nation in November 1975.

Occupied by Indonesia until 1999 and
administered by the UN until 2002

Palau
1 October 1994
Eritrea
24 May 1993
Slovakia
1 January 1993
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 March 1 1992

US

1,347,565,000
1,241,492,000
313,085,000
242,326,000 Indonesia

Most densely populated

The richest countries

The poorest countries

Where refugees come from

People per square km

Gross national income, $ per person, 2009

Gross national income, $ per person, 2009

Refugees and people in refugee-like situations, 2010

Vatican City 900

Macao

Tokelau 1,000

Monaco

Niue 1,000

Singapore

3,000 Falkland Islands

Hong Kong

19,213
16,406
7,125
6,721

$160 Dem Rep Congo

Iraq

Norway

$84,640

$160 Liberia

Somalia

Luxembourg

196,655,000 Brazil

4,000 Saint Helena

176,745,000 Pakistan

6,000 Montserrat

1,297 Malta

Denmark

Macedonia
8 September 1991

162,471,000 Nigeria

6,000 Saint Pierre & Miquelon

1,288 Bermuda

Sweden

Uzbekistan
1 September 1991

150,494,000 Bangladesh

10,000 Tuvalu

1,246 Bangladesh

142,836,000 Russia

10,000 Nauru

1,041 Bahrain

13,000 Wallis & Futuna Islands

1,031 Maldives

126,497,000 Japan

Afghanistan

$136,630

Tajikistan
9 September 1991

All of these countries are recognised by the UN

except for Kosovo, which is recognised by 76 out of
192 UN members

$150 Burundi

Liechtenstein

Armenia
23 September 1991

3,105 Gibraltar

$197,590

Monaco

Switzerland

$76,710
$65,430
$59,060
$48,840

$290 Malawi

3,054,709
1,683,579

770,154

476,693 Dem Rep Congo

Where refugees go
Pakistan

1,900,621
1,073,366

Iran
Syria

1,005,472
594,269 Germany

$320 Eritrea

415,670 Burma

450,915 Jordan

$330 Ethiopia

395,577 Colombia

402,905 Kenya

$340 Niger

387,288 Sudan

347,939 Chad

338,698 Vietnam

300,986 China

$48,460 Netherlands

$340 Sierra Leone

Austria

$46,450

$360 Zimbabwe

222,460 Eritrea

264,574 US

US

$46,360

$370 Guinea

184,602 China

238,150 UK