Political Map of the World, April 2001

AUSTRALIA

Independent state
Dependency or area of special sovereignty
Island / island group

150

Capital

90

120

30

60

ARCTIC OCEAN

Scale 1:35,000,000
Robinson Projection
standard parallels 38N and 38S

Ellesmere
Island

Qaanaaq
(Thule)

Banks
Island

Kaujuitoq

Barrow

Victoria
Island

(NORWAY)

180

ARCTIC OCEAN

SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA

Kara Sea

NOVAYA
ZEMLYA

Barents Sea

Greenland

Baffin
Bay

(Resolute)

Svalbard

150

120

FRANZ JOSEF
LAND

Longyearbyen

Greenland Sea

ISLANDS

90

60

ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH

Beaufort Sea

30

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Laptev Sea

Tiksi

Norwegian
Sea

Jan Mayen

Baffin
Island

(NORWAY)

Chukchi

Noril'sk

Murmansk

Arctic Circle (6633')

Anchorage

Great
Slave Lake

Whitehorse

TIA
ALEU

Juneau

Churchill

CANADA

Bergen

Rockall
(U.K.)

DS

Lake
Winnipeg

Calgary

Lake
Michigan

Minneapolis

Portland

Lake
Huron
Ottawa
Toronto

Milwaukee

UNITED

San Francisco

Los Angeles

Phoenix

STATES

El Paso

Halifax

(FRANCE)

Bilbao

Boston

NORTH

Baltimore

Washington, D.C.

AZORES
(PORT.)

ATLANTIC

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

Johnston Atoll

Veracruz

Puebla
Oaxaca

Acapulco

BELIZE
Belmopan

Clipperton Island
(FRANCE)

COSTA RICA

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

British Virgin
Islands
(U.K.)
Anguilla (U.K.)

Caribbean Sea

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

Guadeloupe (FR.)

CAPE VERDE

DOMINICA

(U.K.)

Aruba

(NETH.)

Barranquilla
San Jos Cartagena
Colon

Nouakchott

ST. KITTS AND NEVIS

(U.S.)
Montserrat

(U.S.)

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

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

(U.S.)

(ECUADOR)

VENEZUELA

Bogot

COLOMBIA

Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
(FRANCE)
SURINAME Cayenne

(BRAZIL)

ECUADOR
Guayaquil

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

Belm

Manaus

Iquitos

So Lus
Fortaleza

(Fr. Poly.)

Goinia

BOLIVIA

Arequipa

Tropic of Capricorn

ATLANTIC

PARAGUAY

(2327')

Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)

Easter Island
(CHILE)

San Miguel
de Tucumn

Isla San Ambrosio

(CHILE)

(BRAZIL)

Walvis Bay

Santiago

ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)
Concepcin

PHILIPPINES

Ho Chi Minh City

Buenos Aires

Lake
Nyasa

Moroni

Cebu

La Plata

ARGENTINA

MALAWI

Celebes Sea

Tarawa

Mozambique
Channel

Beira

Yaren NAURU
District

MADAGASCAR

Reunion

PAPUA
NEW GUINEA

Banda Sea

Semarang
Surabaya

(temporarily administered
by the UN)

Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

Timor
Sea

Arafura
Sea

Gulf of
Carpentaria

OCEAN

Port
Louis
MAURITIUS

Cairns

Funafuti

Tokelau
(N.Z.)

TUVALU

Honiara

SAMOA
Apia
Mata-Utu
(FRANCE)
Pago Pago

Wallis and
Futuna

Coral
Sea

VANUATU

Coral Sea
Islands

Re
ef

Howland Island (U.S.)

Baker Island (U.S.)
0

K I R I B A T I

SOLOMON
ISLANDS

Port
Moresby

Darwin

(AUSTL.)

Port-Vila

(AUSTL.)

FIJI

American
Samoa

Suva

Niue
(N.Z.)

(U.S.)

New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)

(FRANCE)

Europa Island

(AUSTL.)

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

INDIAN

(FRANCE)

SaintDenis

Makassar

Java Sea

Christmas Island

Tromelin Island

Antananarivo

East Timor

(FRANCE)

(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)

MOZAMBIQUE

N
Bandung

Glorioso Islands

Nuku'alofa

TONGA

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

(FRANCE)

Alice Springs

Pretoria

Maputo

A U S T R A L I A

Mbabane
SWAZILAND

SOUTH
PACIFIC

Norfolk
Island

Brisbane

(AUSTL.)

Durban
Perth

OCEAN

Lord Howe
Island

KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

30

(AUSTL.)

Montevideo

Adelaide

Port Elizabeth

Great Australian
Bight

le Amsterdam

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)

le Saint-Paul

Canberra

Sydney
Auckland

Melbourne

NEW
ZEALAND

Tasman Sea

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

(St. Helena)

Tasmania

Wellington

Hobart

Christchurch

(FRANCE)

Comodoro
Rivadavia

CHATHAM ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)

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

Stanley

Scotia Sea
Drake
Passage

LES CROZET
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

LES KERGUELEN
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Heard Island and
McDonald Islands
(AUSTL.)

Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)

Punta Arenas

Antarctic Circle (6633')

Majuro

Palikir

Equator

Jakarta
Diego
Garcia

Gough Island

60

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

PALAU

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

OCEAN

Koror

BRUNEI

Hagta

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Bandar Seri
Begawan

British Indian
Ocean Territory

Mayotte

Lilongwe

BOTSWANA

Cape
Town

Puerto Montt

PACIFIC

(U.S.)

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

Saipan

Guam

URUGUAY

Baha Blanca

SOUTH

TANZANIA

(FRANCE)

AFRICA

Crdoba
Rosario

Medan

(U.S.)

(U.S.)

Davao

Kuala
Lumpur
M A

Wake Island
Northern
Mariana
Islands

Manila

South China
Sea

LESOTHO
SOUTH Maseru

Prto
Alegre

Mendoza

PARACEL
ISLANDS

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

SRI
LANKA

Philippine
Sea

VIETNAM

(U.K.)

Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)

Johannesburg

(U.K.)

CHILE

Victoria

Dar es Salaam

Bassas
da India

Gaborone

Phnom Penh
Gulf of
Thailand

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Taiwan

Hainan
Dao

CAMBODIA

(U.S.)

Marcus Island
(JAPAN)

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

Hue

Bangkok

Singapore
SINGAPORE

Mombasa

BURUNDI

ZIMBABWE

St. Helena

30

Male

Gulf of

Vientiane Tonkin

THAILAND

Andaman
Sea

Colombo

Nanning

Midway
Islands

Palembang

COMOROS

ZAMBIA

Curitiba

Rangoon

(INDIA)

SEYCHELLES

Windhoek

Chiang
Mai

Nairobi

Lake
Victoria
Bujumbura

Harare

OCEAN

LAOS

Mogadishu

KENYA

Lusaka

Rio de Janeiro
So Paulo

Asuncin

Kampala

Hanoi

BURMA

LAKSHADWEEP

Laccadive
Sea

Guangzhou

ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Chennai
(Madras)

Taipei

Kunming

Bengal

Bangalore

SOMALIA

UGANDA

Lake
Tanganyika

NAMIBIA

- Hyderabad

Okinawa

30

Pontianak

OF THE CONGO

Namibe

St. Helena

Nagpur

East China
Sea

Nanchang

Changsha
Guiyang

MALDIVES

ANGOLA

Martin Vaz

Berbera

Juba

Lubumbashi

(St. Helena)

Kolkata Dhaka
(Calcutta)

INDIA

Pune

ETHIOPIA

REPUBLIC

Kinshasa

(YEMEN)

Luanda

SOUTH

- Ahmadabad

Arabian
Sea

Socotra

Djibouti

RWANDA Kigali

Macei

(BRAZIL)

Antofagasta

Adamstown

Ascension

(St. Helena)

Trindade

(FRANCE)

(Fr. Poly.)

(Cabinda)

Belo
Horizonte

Sucre

P o l y n e s i a

LES TUBUAI

ANGOLA

Braslia

Santa Cruz

F r e n c h

Brazzaville

DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden

Addis
Ababa

Thimphu

Bay of

Sanaa

Chongqing

BANGLADESH

Karachi

YEMEN

Asmara

DEMOCRATIC

(EQUA. GUI.)

Kathmandu

Kanpur

Shanghai
Hangzhou

Barrier

SOCIETY
ISLANDS

Papeete

La Paz

Muscat

Lhasa
BHUTAN

NEPAL
Lucknow

OMAN

ERITREA

Khartoum

Kisangani

Libreville REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO

So Tome

Annobon

Salvador

Lago
Titicaca

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU

(Fr. Poly.)

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

Equator

New
Delhi

Yokohama

Fukuoka

Nanjing

Mumbai
(Bombay)

Omdurman

CHAD

Niamey

Natal

Cusco

Cook Islands
(N.Z.)

SENEGAL

UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES

Tokyo

Nagoya
Osaka

Pusan

Xi'an

Wuhan

PACIFIC
OCEAN

JAPAN

Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA

Yellow
Sea

Qingdao

Zhengzhou

Chengdu

Jaipur

Doha
Abu Dhabi

ARABIA

CHINA

Chinese line
of control

Quetta

OMAN

Jinan

Lanzhou

Lahore

PAKISTAN

Persian
Gulf

Tianjin

Taiyuan

NORTH

Sea of
Japan

NORTH KOREA
P'yongyang

t
Grea

Lima

NIGER

(BRAZIL)

BRAZIL

PERU

MALI

Arquiplago de
Fernando de Noronha

Recife

Trujillo

Dakar

Kandahar

Shiraz

QATAR

Jiddah
Mecca

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

Port Sudan

Tombouctou

Penedos de
So Pedro e So Paulo

Teresina

K I R I B A T I

Aswan

MAURITANIA

BAHRAIN

Manama
Riyadh

SUDAN

Quito

Jarvis
Island

SAUDI

EGYPT

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

TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO

Caracas

Medelln

Praia

Port-of-Spain

Maracaibo

Panama
PANAMA

Cali

Equator

LIBYA

KUWAIT

Kuwait

Red
Sea

DOMINICAN

Isla de
Malpelo

Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)

ALGERIA

Western
Sahara

Port-au- REPUBLIC
Prince
JAMAICA
Kingston Navassa HAITI Santo Puerto
Domingo Rico
Island

Isla del Coco

(COSTA RICA)

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

Al Jizah

Beijing

Kashi
Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN

Kabul

IRAN

Al Basrah

JORDAN

Cairo

(U.K.)

Cayman Is.

GUATEMALA HONDURAS
Tegucigalpa
Guatemala
San Salvador
NICARAGUA
EL SALVADOR
Managua

(U.S.)

MOROCCO

Baghdad

Tel Aviv-Yafo
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Jerusalem Amman

- Banghazi

Esfahan

occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,

administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

Sapporo

Shenyang
Baotou

Indian
claim

Mashhad

Tehran

IRAQ

Damascus

Beirut

Turks and
Caicos Islands

CUBA
(U.K.)

Tripoli

Mosul
Karkuk

SYRIA

LEB.

CYPRUS

(GR.)

Ashgabat

Vladivostok

Mexico

(U.S.)

Rabat

Changchun
rmqi

Bishkek
KYRGYZSTAN

Tashkent

TURKMENISTAN

Tabriz

Aleppo

Nicosia
Crete

Baku

Harbin

OT

Guadalajara

Cancn

Tunis MALTA
Valletta
TUNISIA

Yerevan

Adana

(IT.)

Mediterranean Sea

(SP.)

Ankara

Konya

UZBEKISTAN

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

TURKEY

Athens

Caspian
Sea

T'bilisi

Bursa

Izmir

GREECE

Palermo

GEORGIA

KURIL
ISLANDS

HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS

Mrida

Algiers

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV

REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

MONGOLIA

Aral
Sea
Almaty

Istanbul

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar

Lake Balkhash

N
PA

Len

Tirana

Rostov
Sea of
Azov

Qaraghandy
(Karaganda)

KAZAKHSTAN

Atyrau
(Atyrau)

Volgograd

(U.S.)

Sakhalin

H
- S

MEXICO

Honolulu

(IT.)

Laayoune
(El Aain)

THE
BAHAMAS
Nassau

Havana

Mazatln

Oran

Kharkiv

Black Sea

Sofia

BULGARIA

Sardinia

BALEARIC
ISLANDS
(SP.)

Astana

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Irkutsk

(JA

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Matamoros

Gulf of Mexico

Melilla

UKRAINE

Skopje

ALB.

Naples

Marrakech

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

San Antonio

Monterrey

Casablanca

Rome

Sicily

Gibraltar(U.K.)

Ceuta (SP.)

Jacksonville

Miami

Barcelona
Valencia

Sevilla

OCEAN

VATICAN
CITY

(FR.)

Saratov

PO

Houston

SPAIN

YUGO.

ITALY Sarajevo

Corsica

Barnaul

Samara
Voronezh

Sea of
Okhotsk

Lake
Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Kiev

L'viv

SLOVAKIA

BOS. & HERZ.

Krasnoyarsk

Chelyabinsk

Ufa

Ciudad Jurez

ANDORRA

Yekaterinburg
Kazan'

Minsk

AUSTRIA

Turin MARINO

Marseille

Moscow

BELARUS

Krakw

Prague
CZECH REP.

Nizhniy
Novgorod

Yaroslavl'

Bratislava
MOLDOVA
Donets'k
Budapest
Chisinau

HUNGARY
Bern Ljubljana
ROMANIA
Odesa
SLOVENIA
Milan Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade
Bucharest
SAN

Madrid

PORTUGAL
Lisbon

(U.K.)

30

Lyon
Bordeaux

Lodz

Vienna

LIECH.

SWITZ.

MONACO

Bermuda
New
Orleans

Cologne Berlin

Munich

Paris

Vilnius

POLAND
Warsaw

Hamburg

GERMANY
Luxembourg

Brussels
BELGIUM
LUX.

Bay of
Biscay

Atlanta

Dallas

NETH.
Lille

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

St. Pierre
and Miquelon

New York
Philadelphia

Columbus

London

Baltic Riga LAT.

Sea
LITH.

60

Bering Sea

Perm'

NA

San Diego
Tijuana
Mexicali

St. Louis

Amsterdam

KINGDOM

FRANCE

Montral

Lake Ontario

Lake Erie

Cleveland

Indianapolis

Denver

Gulf of
St. Lawrence

Qubec

Isle of
Man (U.K.)

Magadan

St. Petersburg

Tallinn EST.

RUSSIA

Yakutsk

PACIFIC

Detroit

Chicago

Salt Lake City

Celtic
Sea

Manchester

Helsinki

Seattle

OCEAN

Island of
Newfoundland

Lake
Superior

NORTH

Dublin
IRELAND

Winnipeg

Vancouver

Glasgow
Belfast

R U S S I A

FINLAND

Stockholm

North
DENMARK
Sea Copenhagen

UNITED

Labrador
Sea

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

Edmonton

LAN
N IS

Oslo

Arkhangel'sk

Gulf
of
Bothnia

(DEN.)

Trshavn

Anadyr'

White Sea

SWEDEN

Faroe
Islands

Reykjavk

Hudson
Bay

60

Gulf of Alaska

Nuuk (Godthb)

NORWAY

ICELAND

Yellowknife

Denmark
Strait

Davis
Strait

IS
L A N
D S
AN
)

Iqaluit

(Frobisher Bay)

Great
Bear Lake

Fairbanks

AP

U. S.

Sea

Cherskiy

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nome

Wrangel
Island

East Siberian Sea

(DENMARK)

Sicily / AZORES

(J

Bermuda

Macquarie
Island
(AUSTL.)

South Georgia and the

South Sandwich Islands
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)

SNARES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

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

Campbell
Island
(N.Z.)

60
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Antarctic Circle (6633')

Amery Ice
Shelf

Amundsen Sea

Bellingshausen Sea

Weddell Sea

April 2001

Ross Sea

Ross Sea
Ronne Ice Shelf

A n t a r c t i c a*

Ross
Ice Shelf
150

120

90

60

30

30

* Twenty

Ross Ice Shelf

60

90

120

150

180

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.

Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

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