Political Map of the World, January 2015

AUSTRALIA

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

150

Capital

60

90

120

Ellesmere
Island

QUEEN ELIZABETH

Beaufort Sea

Resolute

Barrow

Victoria
Island

ARCTIC OCEAN

SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA

(NORWAY)

Barents Sea

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Kara Sea

NOVAYA
ZEMLYA

Svalbard

Greenland

Baffin
Bay

Pond Inlet

180

Longyearbyen

Greenland Sea

ISLANDS

Banks
Island

150

120

FRANZ JOSEF
LAND

ARCTIC OCEAN

Qaanaaq (Thule)

90

60

30

Alert

ARCTIC OCEAN

Laptev Sea
East Siberian Sea
Tiksi

Baffin
Island

Jan Mayen

Norwegian
Sea

(NORWAY)

Pevek
Noril'sk

Murmansk

Dublin
IRELAND

Seattle

Lake
Michigan

Minneapolis

Portland

Lake
Huron
Ottawa
Toronto

Milwaukee

NORTH

Detroit

Chicago
Salt Lake City
Denver

PACIFIC

Saint
Louis

Kansas City

Sacramento
San Francisco

OCEAN

UNITED

Las Vegas
Los Angeles

Porto

Charlotte

THE
Nassau
BAHAMAS

Port-auPrince

(U.K.)

JAMAICA
Kingston

BELIZE

Oaxaca

Belmopan

Acapulco

Navassa
Island

HAITI

(U.S.)

GUATEMALA HONDURAS

(U.S.)

Guatemala City
San Salvador

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

(U.K.)

ST. VINCENT AND

THE GRENADINES
Curacao (NETH.)

Valencia

Praia

TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO

Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
SURINAME Cayenne (FRANCE)

Bogot

COLOMBIA

(BRAZIL)

SENEGAL

Jarvis
Island

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

(U.S.)

(ECUADOR)

ECUADOR
Guayaquil

Belm
So Lus

Manaus

Iquitos

Omdurman

CHAD

Malabo

Annobon

Brazzaville

(Fr. Poly.)

Sucre

F r e n c h

P o l y n e s i a

Santa
Cruz

Uberlndia
Campo
Grande

Tropic of Capricorn
LES TUBUAI

Adamstown

(Fr. Poly.)

PARAGUAY

(2327')

Asuncin

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio
(CHILE)

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)
Easter Island
(CHILE)

Martin Vaz
(BRAZIL)

Trindade
(BRAZIL)

Valparaiso

Mendoza

Concepcin

Melekeok

SaintDenis

PALAU
Celebes Sea

SOUTH
AFRICA

Yaren
District

Banda Sea
Dli

Timor
Sea

Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

PAPUA
NEW GUINEA

Arafura
Sea

TIMOR-LESTE
Kupang

Gulf of
Carpentaria

Nuku'alofa

TONGA

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Maputo

A U S T R A L I A

Mbabane

Maseru

SOUTH
PACIFIC

Norfolk
Island

Brisbane

(AUSTL.)

Durban
Perth

Adelaide

Great Australian
Bight

le Amsterdam

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Mar del Plata

Canberra

OCEAN

Lord Howe
Island

Newcastle
Sydney
Wollongong

30

KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

(AUSTL.)

Auckland
Melbourne

NEW
ZEALAND

Tasman Sea

Tasmania

Wellington

Hobart

(FRANCE)

Christchurch

Comodoro
Rivadavia

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

PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)

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

Heard Island and

McDonald Islands
(AUSTL.)

Stanley
Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)

Scotia Sea
Drake
Passage

AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

LES KERGUELEN
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Punta Arenas

Antarctic Circle (6633')

(U.S.)

Suva

(AUSTL.)

Reunion

American
Samoa

FIJI

New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)

Gough Island

60

Port-Vila

MAURITIUS

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

OCEAN

VANUATU

Coral Sea
Islands

le Saint-Paul

PACIFIC

SAMOA
Apia
Mata-Utu
(FRANCE) Pago Pago

Coral
Sea

Port Louis

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

Puerto Montt

Tokelau
(N.Z.)
Wallis and
Futuna

Re
ef

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

SOUTH

Funafuti

TUVALU

Honiara

Cairns

Port
Elizabeth

Montevideo

K I R I B A T I

SOLOMON
ISLANDS

Port
Moresby

Darwin

(AUSTL.)

(AUSTL.)

(FRANCE)

NAURU

Jayapura

Banjarmasin

(U.S.)

Baker Island (U.S.)

Pontianak Samarinda

Cape Town

ARGENTINA

Howland Island

Tarawa

LESOTHO SWAZILAND

(U.K.)

Majuro

Palikir

Alice Springs

Johannesburg

Buenos Aires

Baha Blanca

MADAGASCAR

Davao

OCEAN

Antananarivo

Europa
Island

Pretoria

URUGUAY
La Plata

BOTSWANA

Saint Helena, Ascension,

and Tristan da Cunha

Joinville

Rosario

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Gaborone

Crdoba

Santiago
ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)

Windhoek

Santos

Prto
Alegre

CHILE

Bassas
da India
(FRANCE)

Walvis Bay

Florianpolis

30

(FRANCE)

Mozambique
Channel

Beira

Bulawayo

Hagta

Equator

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

INDIAN

Tromelin Island

(U.S.)

Bandar Seri
Begawan
BRUNEI

(AUSTL.)

Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)

MOZAMBIQUE

ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA

(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)

PHILIPPINES

Christmas Island

(FRANCE)

Mayotte

MALAWI
Blantyre

Harare

Curitiba

San Miguel
de Tucumn

Moroni

Lilongwe

Lusaka

OCEAN

Glorioso Islands

COMOROS

ZAMBIA
Namibe

Diego
Garcia

(FRANCE)

So Paulo

Antofagasta

Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)

Belo
Horizonte

Rio de
Janeiro

Campinas

Lake
Nyasa

Saipan
Guam

SINGAPORE

SEYCHELLES

Ndola

ATLANTIC
Vitria

(FRANCE)

TANZANIA

(U.S.)

TanjungkarangJava Sea
Makassar
Telukbetung
Jakarta
Bandung
Semarang
Surabaya
Malang
Denpasar

(U.K.)

Dar es Salaam

(U.S.)

Manila

Palembang

British Indian
Ocean Territory

Wake Island

Cebu

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Northern
Mariana
Islands

Sea

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A
Singapore

(U.S.)

(JAPAN)

Barrier

Niue
(N.Z.)

Goinia

Cochabamba

Lake
Victoria

Minami-tori-shima

Philippine

Zamboanga

Medan

Midway
Islands

Luzon
Strait

Ho Chi Minh
City

Padang

Victoria

30

Taiwan

South China
Sea

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Pekanbaru

Mombasa

Yokohama

Kaohsiung

VIETNAM

Phnom
Penh
Gulf of
Thailand

Nairobi

Lubumbashi

Saint Helena

Kochi

PARACEL
ISLANDS

CAMBODIA

Mogadishu

Dodoma

Lake
Tanganyika

ANGOLA

ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

KENYA

BURUNDI

Taipei

saka
O

Hainan
Dao
Da Nang

Bangkok

Andaman
Sea

Colombo
SRI
LANKA

Gulf of
Tonkin

THAILAND

Coimbatore

Laccadive
Sea

LAOS

Tokyo

Nagoya
Hiroshima

Okinawa

Fuzhou

Guangzhou
Nanning
Hong Kong
Zhanjiang Macau S.A.R.
S.A.R.
Haiphong

Chiang Vientiane
Mai

Rangoon

Madurai

SOMALIA

Macei

SOUTH

Kozhikode

(INDIA)

Luanda

Braslia

La Paz

Arequipa

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU

(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

(YEMEN)

Chennai

Busan

PACIFIC
OCEAN

JAPAN

t
Grea

SOCIETY
ISLANDS

BOLIVIA

Socotra

Bangalore

Hanoi

Bujumbura

OF THE CONGO

Salvador

Lago
Titicaca

(N.Z.)

Bay of
Bengal

ETHIOPIA

Kampala

Mbuji-Mayi

Benguela

Nay Pyi
Taw

Male

Kinshasa

ANGOLA

Recife

Cusco

Arabian
Sea LAKSHADWEEP

Gulf of Aden

Mandalay

Pune
Vishakhapatnam

Yellow
Sea

Xiamen

NORTH

Sea of
Japan

Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA

Shantou

BURMA

INDIA
Vijayawada

Hargeysa

Juba

REPUBLIC

Lima
Cook Islands

SOUTH
SUDAN

RWANDA Kigali

(EQUA. GUI.)

Pointe-Noire

BRAZIL

Addis
Ababa

DEMOCRATIC

Ascension
Prto Velho

DJIBOUTI
Djibouti

Kisangani

REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO

Joo Pessoa

PERU

Nagpur

Sanaa
Aden

Guiyang

Jamshedpur
Khulna
Kolkata Chittagong

Indore
Surat

Hyderabad

Mekele

Occupied by SOVIET UNION in 1945,

administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

Sapporo

Fukuoka
Nanjing
Nantong
Hefei
Shanghai
Wuhan
Hangzhou
Ningbo
East China
Nanchang
Changsha
Sea

Kunming

BANGLADESH
Dhaka

Ahmadabad Bhopal

YEMEN

Asmara

Thimphu

Karachi

OMAN

Xi'an

Chongqing

Patna

MALDIVES

Libreville

(BRAZIL)

NEPAL
Kathmandu

Dalian
Yantai

Zhengzhou

Chengdu
Lhasa
BHUTAN

Kanpur Lucknow

Hyderabad

ARABIA

UGANDA

(Cabinda)

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

Jaipur

Yaound

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tom

Natal
Trujillo

PAKISTAN

CHINA

Ludhiana

New
Delhi
Agra

ERITREA

Kassala

Khartoum

Gulf of Guinea

Teresina

K I R I B A T I

Medina

SUDAN

NIGER

Banjul
Bamako
FASO
THE GAMBIA
N'Djamena
Kano
Bissau
Ouagadougou
Nyala
GUINEA-BISSAU
GUINEA
BENIN
NIGERIA
Conakry
Abuja
CTE
TOGO
Freetown
D'IVOIRE GHANA
Ogbomoso
SIERRA
Ibadan
Yamoussoukro
CENTRAL
LEONE
Lagos
Lom
AFRICAN
REPUBLIC
Accra
Monrovia
PortoAbidjan
CAMEROON
Novo
LIBERIA
Bangui
Douala

ARQUIPLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Fortaleza

Zahedan

BAHRAIN Persian
OMAN
Gulf
Manama
Abu
Doha
Riyadh
Dhabi
Gulf of Oman
QATAR UNITED ARAB
Muscat
EMIRATES

BURKINA Niamey

Equator

z
Shira

Zibo
Jinan
Qingdao

Lanzhou

Line of
Actual
Control

Lahore
Faisalabad
Multan
Quetta

SAUDI

EGYPT

MALI

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Quito

1972
Line of Control

Peshawar

Mumbai

CABO VERDE

Dakar

Kandahar

IRAN

KUWAIT
Kuwait
City

Tianjin
Shijiazhuang
Taiyuan

Indian
claim

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

Esfahan
Ahvaz

Kabul

Vladivostok

NORTH KOREA
Pyongyang

Datong

Kashi

Port Sudan

Timbuktu

Port of Spain

Ciudad
Guayana

IRAQ

Beijing

Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN

Herat

Jilin

Shenyang
Baotou

Mashhad

Qom
Kermanshah

Al Jizah

Aswan

PENEDOS DE
SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

Equator

Benghazi

LIBYA

Cali

Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)

Tripoli

UZBEKISTAN

Tehran

Erbil

Damascus
Baghdad
Tel Aviv-Yafo
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Jerusalem Amman
Al Basrah
JORDAN
Cairo

ALGERIA

Nouakchott

BARBADOS

VENEZUELA

Medelln
Isla de
Malpelo
(COLOMBIA)

Caracas

Maracaibo

Ccuta

PANAMA

Isla del Coco

(COSTA RICA)

Aleppo

SYRIA

MAURITANIA

GRENADA

Barranquilla
Cartagena

RICA

Mosul

Changchun

rmqi

KYRGYZSTAN

TURKMENISTAN
Ashgabat

Tabriz

Gaziantep

Red Jeddah
Sea Mecca

DOMINICA
Martinique (FR.)
ST. LUCIA

Montserrat

(NETH.)

San Jos
Coln Panama
COSTA
City

(FRANCE)

British
Virgin Virgin Islands
Islands
(U.K.)
(U.S.)
DOMINICAN
Anguilla (U.K.)
REPUBLIC
Saint-Martin (FR.)
San
Sint Maarten (NETH.)
Santiago Juan
Saint Barthelemy (FR.)
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
Santo Puerto
ANTIGUA
AND BARBUDA
Domingo Rico
Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.)

Aruba

NICARAGUA

Managua

Clipperton Island

EY

Harbin

Bishkek

Tashkent

Baku

Yerevan

KURIL
ISLANDS

MONGOLIA

Almaty
Shymkent

AZERBAIJAN

ARMENIA

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar
Lake Balkhash

Aral
Sea

Caspian
Sea

Tbilisi

CYPRUS Beirut
LEBANON

(GR.)

Western
Sahara

Caribbean Sea

Tegucigalpa

EL SALVADOR

GEORGIA

(U.K.)

Cayman Is.

Atyra

Astrakhan'

Turks and
Caicos Islands

Cancn

KAZAKHSTAN

Aqta
(Aktau)

Nicosia
Crete

Mediterranean Sea

Fs

Laayoune

CUBA

Puebla

Volgograd
Rostov

S
ND
I SLA

TO

Toluca
ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

Mrida

Mexico
City

U.S.

UKRAINE

Valletta

AL
EUT
IAN

Guadalajara

Len

Constantine

(SP.)

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

Havana

San Luis
Potos

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Tunis
TUNISIA

MALTA

Sakhalin

HO
- S
P O PAN)
JA

MEXICO

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

HUNGARY

MOROCCO

Miami

Gulf of Mexico

SLOVENIA

Bern

U.S.

PetropavlovskKamchatskiy

Chita

Astana

Matamoros

AUSTRIA

Irkutsk

Orenburg

Saratov

NA

Monterrey
Torren

LIECH.

Sea of
Okhotsk

Qaraghandy
(Karaganda)

Kharkiv
Donets'k
MOLDOVA
Chisinau
Odesa

SLOVAKIA

Bratislava
Budapest

Marrakech

Orlando

Tampa

Oran

Melilla

Casablanca

Jacksonville

San
Antonio

Chihuahua

Gibraltar (U.K.)

Ceuta (SP.)

(U.K.)

New
Houston Orleans

Austin

CZECH REP.

Vienna

Lake
Baikal

Barnaul

Kyiv

Ljubljana
Sea of
ROMANIA
Lyon SWITZ.
Azov
Milan
Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest
Bordeaux
Turin
SAN
BOS. &
MARINO
HER.
SERBIA
Toulouse
MONACO Genoa
Sarajevo
Black Sea
Pristina
Sofia
ITALY
Marseille
Bilbao
Podgorica KOS.
Corsica
BULGARIA
VATICAN
ANDORRA
(FR.)
MONT.
CITY
Skopje
Rome
Tirana
Istanbul
MACEDONIA
Barcelona
Madrid
ALB.
Naples
Ankara
Bursa
Sardinia
SPAIN Valencia BALEARIC
(IT.)
GREECE
.
T
URK
ISLANDS
I
zmir
Palermo
(SP.)
Konya
Sevilla
Athens
Adana
Sicily
Algiers
Mlaga
(IT.)

Rabat

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

OCEAN

Bermuda

Dallas

Lisbon

AZORES
(PORT.)

ATLANTIC

El Paso
Ciudad
Juarez

PORTUGAL

NORTH

Atlanta

Phoenix

San Diego
Tijuana Mexicali

Johnston Atoll

Boston
Providence
Pittsburgh
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore

Norfolk

Nashville

Honolulu

(FRANCE)

Halifax

Buffalo

STATES

Munich

Voronezh

Krasnoyarsk

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Samara

Homyel
L'viv

Tomsk

Yekaterinburg
Chelyabinsk

Ufa

BELARUS

Krakw

Bering Sea

Tyumen'

Izhevsk
Kazan'

Ul'yanovsk

POLAND

Prague

Nizhniy
Novgorod

Minsk

Ldz

GERMANY

Paris

Moscow

60

Perm'

Bay of
Biscay

Washington, D.C.

Oklahoma City

30

St. Pierre
and Miquelon

Lake Erie

Cleveland
Indianapolis
Cincinnati

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

Yaroslavl'

LAT.

Warsaw
.

Cologne

FRANCE

Montral

Lake Ontario

NETH.
Brussels
Lille

BELGIUM LUX. Frankfurt

Luxembourg

Gulf of
St. Lawrence

Qubec

Berlin

Amsterdam

Magadan

EST.

Hamburg

KINGDOM
London

Celtic
Sea

Vancouver

Lake
Superior

(U.K.)

Birmingham

Island of
Newfoundland

Winnipeg

Leeds

Isle of
Man

Yakutsk

Saint Petersburg

LITH.
Vilnius

RUSSIA

R U S S I A

Lake
Onega

Lake
Winnipeg

Saskatoon

UNITED

Belfast

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

DENMARK
Copenhagen

Provideniya

Edmonton

North
Sea

Lake
Ladoga

Helsinki

Baltic

Sea Riga

(U.K.)

Glasgow

FINLAND

Tallinn

Stockholm

Rockall

Labrador
Sea

Kuujjuaq

Anadyr'
Arkhangel'sk

Gulf
of
Bothnia

(DEN.)

Oslo

CANADA
Calgary

Reykjavk

IS
L A N
D S
)

White Sea

SWEDEN

Faroe
Islands

AN

TIAN

DS
SLAN

NORWAY

ICELAND

Hudson
Bay

Fort McMurray
Prince
George

Davis
Strait

Denmark
Strait

Trshavn

Churchill

Juneau

(Godthb)

AP

60

ALEU

Iqaluit

Great
Slave Lake

Whitehorse

Gulf of Alaska

Nuuk

Great
Bear Lake

Fairbanks

Anchorage

Sea

Arctic Circle (6633')

U. S.

Chukchi

Cherskiy

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nome

Wrangel
Island

(DENMARK)

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

30

(J

Sicily / AZORES

Bermuda

Macquarie
Island

South Georgia and

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.)

(AUSTL.)

60
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Antarctic Circle (6633')

Amery Ice
Shelf

Bellingshausen Sea

Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea
Ross Sea

Ronne Ice Shelf

Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative countries 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 countries.

Ross
Ice Shelf
150

120

90

Ross Sea

Antarctica

60

30

30

Ross Ice Shelf

60

90

120

150

180

January 2015
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

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