Political Map of the World, April 2008 AUSTRALIA
Independent state
Bermuda
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
0
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
Montréal
Boston Providence Pittsburgh New York Philadelphia Baltimore
Porto
Charlotte
Toluca ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Miami
Cancún
THE Nassau BAHAMAS
Belmopan
GUATEMALA HONDURAS
Aruba (NETH.)
NICARAGUA
Barranquilla Cartagena San José Colón COSTA Panama Cúcuta RICA
(FRANCE)
Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)
Valencia
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
Isla de Malpelo (COLOMBIA)
Port-of-Spain TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Ciudad Guayana
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana SURINAME Cayenne (FRANCE)
VENEZUELA
Medellín
Praia
Bogota
COLOMBIA
SENEGAL
0
(BRAZIL)
Jarvis Island
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(U.S.)
(ECUADOR)
ECUADOR Guayaquil
Belém São Luís
Manaus
Iquitos
Malabo
CHAD
REP. OF THE GABON CONGO
Annobon
Brazzaville
(Fr. Poly.)
Sucre
F r e n c h
P o l y n e s i a
Santa Cruz
Campo Grande
Tropic of Capricorn ÎLES TUBUAI
Adamstown
(Fr. Poly.)
Easter Island (CHILE)
Namibe
Trindade (BRAZIL)
Harare
OCEAN
Windhoek
Valparaiso
St. Helena
Joinville
Rosario
Santiago ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE)
Concepción
MADAGASCAR
Melekeok
SaintDenis
SOUTH AFRICA
PALAU Celebes Sea
A
Yaren District
D
O
N
E
S
I
A
Banda Sea Dili
Timor Sea
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Darwin
(AUSTL.)
PACIFIC
Gulf of Carpentaria
VANUATU
Coral Sea Islands
Re ef
Port-Vila
(AUSTL.)
American Samoa
FIJI
(U.S.)
Suva
New Caledonia (FRANCE)
MAURITIUS
Reunion
Nuku'Alofa
TONGA
Noumea
Tropic of Capricorn (23°27') Alice Springs
Maputo
A U S T R A L I A
Mbabane
Maseru
SOUTH PACIFIC
Norfolk Island
Brisbane
(AUSTL.)
Durban Perth
Adelaide
Great Australian Bight
Île Amsterdam
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
Canberra
30
KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)
(AUSTL.)
Auckland Melbourne
NEW ZEALAND
Île Saint-Paul
Tasman Sea
Tasmania
(St. Helena)
OCEAN
Lord Howe Island
Newcastle Sydney Wollongong
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Wellington
Hobart
(FRANCE)
Christchurch
CHATHAM ISLANDS (N.Z.) ÎLES 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.)
ÎLES KERGUELEN (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Punta Arenas
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
Tokelau (N.Z.)
SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago
Coral Sea
Cairns
Gough Island
60
Funafuti
Wallis and Futuna
Comodoro Rivadavia
OCEAN
K I R I B A T I
TUVALU
Honiara
Port Louis
ARGENTINA
Puerto Montt
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Port Moresby
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
SOUTH
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Arafura Sea
TIMOR-LESTE Kupang
(AUSTL.)
(FRANCE)
0
NAURU
Jayapura
Banjarmasin
N
(U.S.)
Baker Island (U.S.)
Pontianak Samarinda
Port Elizabeth
Mar del Plata
Howland Island
Tarawa
Cape Town
Montevideo
Majuro
Palikir
LESOTHO SWAZILAND
Buenos Aires
Bahía Blanca
Davao
OCEAN
Antananarivo
Europa Island
Johannesburg
(U.K.)
URUGUAY La Plata
BOTSWANA Pretoria
Córdoba Mendoza
I
MARSHALL ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
Gaborone
Santos
Pôrto Alegre
CHILE
Bassas da India (FRANCE)
Walvis Bay
Florianópolis
30
(FRANCE)
Mozambique Channel
Beira
Bulawayo
S
Hagåtña
Equator
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
INDIAN
Tromelin Island
Juan de Nova Island (FR.)
MOZAMBIQUE
ZIMBABWE
Curitiba
San Miguel de Tucumán
MALAWI Blantyre
Lusaka
NAMIBIA
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
(U.S.)
Bandar Seri Begawan BRUNEI
(AUSTL.)
Mayotte
Lilongwe
PHILIPPINES
Christmas Island
(FRANCE)
(FRANCE)
São Paulo
Asunción
(BRAZIL)
Rio de Janeiro
Campinas
Antofagasta
Isla San Felíx (CHILE) Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)
Martin Vaz Vitória
PARAGUAY
(23°27')
Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)
Ndola
ATLANTIC Belo Horizonte
Moroni
Saipan Guam
SINGAPORE
Glorioso Islands
COMOROS
ZAMBIA St. Helena
Diego Garcia
(U.S.)
(U.S.)
SPRATLY ISLANDS
I
SEYCHELLES
Lake Nyasa
Lubumbashi
Uberlândia
(FRANCE)
TANZANIA
Sea
TanjungkarangJava Sea Makassar Telukbetung Jakarta Bandung Semarang Surabaya Malang Denpasar
(U.K.)
Wake Island
Cebu
Y
(U.S.)
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Northern Mariana Islands
Manila
Palembang
Dar es Salaam
Marcus Island
Philippine
Ho Chi Minh City
Padang
British Indian Ocean Territory
Midway Islands (JAPAN)
Luzon Strait
South China Sea
Kuala Lumpur M A L A Singapore
Medan
30
K
Zamboanga
Lake Victoria
Dodoma
U
Yokohama
Taiwan Kao-hsiung
VIETNAM
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
Nairobi
Victoria
Y
PARACEL ISLANDS
Da Nang
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
Pekanbaru
Mombasa
R
¯ saka O
Hainan Dao
CAMBODIA
Mogadishu
BURUNDI
Lake Tanganyika
(St. Helena)
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
Andaman Sea
Colombo SRI LANKA
Gulf of Tonkin
Bangkok
KENYA
Luanda
SOUTH
LAOS
THAILAND
Madurai
Laccadive Sea
Taipei
Guangzhou Nanning Hong Kong Zhanjiang Macau S.A.R. S.A.R. Haiphong
Chiang Vientiane Mai
Rangoon
Coimbatore
Cochin
Hanoi
Bujumbura
Mbuji-Mayi
Ascension
Goiânia
Cochabamba
(INDIA)
Okinawa
Fuzhou
Tokyo
Nagoya Hiroshima
Barrier
Niue (N.Z.)
La Paz
Arequipa
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)
Papeete
Kampala
OF THE CONGO
(St. Helena)
Brasilia
Calicut
Pusan
PACIFIC OCEAN
JAPAN
t Grea
SOCIETY ISLANDS
BOLIVIA
(YEMEN)
Chennai
Bengaluru
Male
RWANDA Kigali
Salvador
Lago Titicaca
Bay of Bengal
SOMALIA
DEMOCRATIC
ANGOLA
(N.Z.)
Socotra
Mandalay
Nay Pyi Taw Visha¯khapatnam
Yellow Sea
Xiamen
NORTH
Sea of Japan
Seoul SOUTH KOREA
Shantou
Pune
Arabian Sea LAKSHADWEEP
Gulf of Aden
Guiyang
BURMA
Vijayawa¯da
Hargeysa
Juba
Maceió
Cusco
Na¯gpur
INDIA
ETHIOPIA
Kinshasa
ANGOLA
Lima Cook Islands
Aden
Occupied by the 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
Jamshedpur Khulna Kolkata Chittagong
Indore Su¯rat
Sanaa
Addis Ababa
REPUBLIC Pointe-Noire
BRAZIL
Asmara
Thimpu
BANGLADESH Dhaka
Ahmada¯ba¯d Bhopa¯l
YEMEN
Xi'an
Chongqing
Patna
Kara¯chi
OMAN
DJIBOUTI Djibouti
Kisangani
Libreville
Recife
Pôrto Velho
PERU
NEPAL Kathmandu
Ka¯npur Lucknow
Hydera¯ba¯d
ARABIA
ERITREA
Kassala
Khartoum
(Cabinda)
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
Jaipur
MALDIVES
(EQUA. GUI.)
João Pessoa
PAKISTAN
Lhasa BHUTAN
Dalian Yantai
Zhengzhou
Chengdu
Ludhia¯na
New Delhi A¯gra
UGANDA
(BRAZIL)
Natal Trujillo
Za¯heda¯n
Yaounde
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Sao Tome
Equator
Teresina
K I R I B A T I
Medina
Omdurman
Gulf of Guinea
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA Fortaleza
¯ ¯z Shira
BAHRAIN Persian OMAN Gulf Manama Abu Doha Riyadh Dhabi Gulf of Oman QATAR UNITED ARAB Muscat EMIRATES
SUDAN
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Quito
IRAN
Lahore Faisala¯ba¯d Multa¯n Quetta
Hydera¯ba¯d
NIGER
Banjul Bamako FASO THE GAMBIA N'Djamena Kano Bissau Ouagadougou Nyala GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA BENIN NIGERIA Conakry Abuja CÔTE TOGO Freetown D'IVOIRE GHANA Ogbomoso SIERRA Ibadan Yamoussoukro CENTRAL LEONE Lagos Lomé AFRICAN REPUBLIC Accra Monrovia PortoAbidjan CAMEROON Novo LIBERIA Bangui Douala
PENEDOS DE SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
Equator
EGYPT
BURKINA Niamey
Cali
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)
Kandaha¯r
CHINA
Line of Actual Control
MALI
CAPE VERDE
Dakar
1972 Line of Control
Pesha¯war
AFGHANISTAN Islamabad
Es¸faha¯n Ahva¯z
Kabul
Zibo Jinan Qingdao
Lanzhou
Indian claim
Mumbai Tombouctou
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA
Caracas
IRAQ
Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
Hera¯t
Vladivostok
NORTH KOREA Pyongyang
Tianjin Shijiazhuang Taiyuan
Port Sudan
Nouakchott
DOMINICA Martinique (FR.) ST. LUCIA
(U.K.)
Qom Kermanshah
Beijing Datong
Mashhad
Tehran
Arbil
Jilin
Shenyang Baotou
Kashi
SAUDI
Aswa¯n
Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.) Montserrat
Maracaibo
PANAMA
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
LIBYA
UZBEKISTAN
KUWAIT Kuwait
MAURITANIA
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
HAITI Santo Puerto Navassa Domingo Rico Island
Managua
Clipperton Island
Aleppo
SYRIA
Red Jiddah Sea Mecca
DOMINICAN Islands (U.K.) REPUBLIC Anguilla (U.K.) Santiago San Juan
Caribbean Sea
Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador
EL SALVADOR
Mosul
Changchun
Ürümqi
KYRGYZSTAN
TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat
Tabriz ¯
Gaziantep
Al Jizah ¯
Western Sahara
(U.S.)
(U.S.)
EY
Harbin
Bishkek
Tashkent
Baku
Yerevan
KURIL ISLANDS
MONGOLIA
Almaty Shymkent
AZERBAIJAN
ARMENIA
Damascus Baghdad Tel Aviv-Yafo ISRAEL Alexandria Jerusalem Amman Al Bas¸rah JORDAN Cairo
ALGERIA
Lake Balkhash
Caspian Sea
Tbilisi
British Virgin
JAMAICA Kingston
BELIZE
Oaxaca
GEORGIA
CYPRUS Beirut LEBANON
(GR.)
Tripoli
Laayoune
Port-auPrince
Atyraü
S ND ISLA
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar
Aqtaü (Aktau)
(U.K.)
(U.K.)
KAZAKHSTAN Astrakhan'
Turks and Caicos Islands
Cayman Is.
Acapulco
Volgograd Rostov
Aral Sea
Nicosia Crete
Bangha¯zi¯
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
CUBA
Puebla
Valletta
AL EUT IAN
Qaraghandy (Karaganda)
UKRAINE
Mediterranean Sea
Fès
Sakhalin
TO
Mérida
Mexico
U.S.
Constantine
(SP.)
U.S.
PetropavlovskKamchatskiy
Chita
Astana
(
Guadalajara
León
Tunis TUNISIA
MALTA
MOROCCO
Havana
San Luis Potosí
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
HUNGARY
Irkutsk
Orenburg
Saratov
HO - S P O PAN) JA
MEXICO
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
SLOVENIA
Bern
Marrakech
Orlando
Gulf of Mexico
AUSTRIA
Sea of Okhotsk
Barnaul
Kyiv
Kharkiv Donets'k MOLDOVA Chisinau Odesa
SLOVAKIA
Bratislava Budapest
Lake Baikal
Novosibirsk
Omsk
M
Matamoros
LIECH.
Ufa
Krasnoyarsk
NA
Monterrey Torreón
Oran
Melilla
Casablanca
Jacksonville
Tampa
Gibraltar (U.K.)
Ceuta (SP.)
(U.K.)
San Antonio
Chihuahua
CZECH REP.
Vienna
Voronezh
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 Málaga (IT.)
Rabat
MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
OCEAN
Bermuda
New Houston Orleans
Austin
Lisbon
AZORES (PORT.)
ATLANTIC
Dallas Ciudad Juarez
PORTUGAL
NORTH
El Paso
Honolulu
(FRANCE)
Halifax
Atlanta
Phoenix
Munich
L'viv
Tomsk
Yekaterinburg Chelyabinsk
Samara
Homyel
Kraków
Bering Sea
Tyumen'
Izhevsk Kazan'
Ul'yanovsk
POLAND
Prague
Nizhniy Novgorod
Minsk
Lódz
GERMANY
Paris
Moscow
BELARUS
Warsaw .
Cologne
BELGIUM LUX. Frankfurt Luxembourg
Yaroslavl'
LAT.
60
Perm'
Bay of Biscay
Norfolk
Nashville
30
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Lake Ontario
Berlin
Amsterdam
FRANCE
Washington DC
Oklahoma City
San Diego Tijuana Mexicali
Johnston Atoll
Québec
Buffalo
STATES
Guernsey(U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Erie
Cleveland Indianapolis Cincinnati
KINGDOM
Magadan
EST.
Hamburg
NETH. London Brussels Lille
Celtic Sea
Vancouver
Lake Superior
(U.K.)
Leeds
Birmingham
Island of Newfoundland
Winnipeg
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
Reykjavík
IS L A N D S )
I
White Sea
SWEDEN
Faroe Islands
AN
TIAN
DS SLAN
NORWAY
ICELAND
Hudson Bay
Fort McMurray Prince George
Davis Strait
Denmark Strait
Tórshavn
Churchill
Juneau
(Godthåb)
AP
60
ALEU
Iqaluit
Great Slave Lake
Whitehorse
Gulf of Alaska
Nuuk
Great Bear Lake
Fairbanks
Anchorage
Sea
Arctic Circle (66°33')
U
U. S.
Chukchi
Cherskiy
Arctic Circle (66°33') Nome
Wrangel Island
(DENMARK)
(J
Scale 1:35,000,000 Robinson Projection standard parallels 38°N and 38°S
30
Y
Sicily / AZORES
Macquarie Island
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.)
(AUSTL.)
60 SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (66°33') Amery Ice Shelf
Bellingshausen Sea
Weddell Sea
Amundsen Sea Ross Sea
Ronne Ice Shelf
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.
Ross Ice Shelf 150
120
90
Ross Sea
Antarctica
60
30
0
30
Ross Ice Shelf
April 2008 Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
60
90
120
150
180
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