Political

Political Map of the World, April 2000 Independent state

AUSTRALIA Bermuda

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 38˚N and 38˚S

Ellesmere Island

Qaanaaq (Thule)

Kaujuitoq

Barrow

Victoria Island

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Laptev Sea

Barents Sea

Greenland

Baffin Bay

(Resolute)

ARCTIC OCEAN

Kara Sea

NOVAYA ZEMLYA

(NORWAY)

180

SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA

Longyearbyen Svalbard

150

120

FRANZ JOSEF LAND

Greenland Sea

ISLANDS

Banks Island

90

60

ARCTIC OCEAN QUEEN ELIZABETH

Beaufort Sea

30

0

Tiksi

Norwegian Sea

Jan Mayen

Baffin Island

(NORWAY)

Chukchi

Noril'sk

Murmansk

Arctic Circle (66˚33')

Whitehorse

Churchill

Juneau

Bergen

Stockholm

IAN LEUT

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

Edmonton

ISLA

Lake Winnipeg

A

Labrador Sea

Dublin IRELAND Island of Newfoundland

Calgary Winnipeg

Vancouver

Minneapolis

Portland

Lake Michigan

NORTH

UNITED

Bay of Biscay

St. Pierre and Miquelon

Halifax

Washington, D.C.

AZORES (PORT.)

ATLANTIC

Dallas

Bermuda

Mérida

Guadalajara

Mexico ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)

Johnston Atoll

Veracruz

Oaxaca

Cancún

Western Sahara

DOMINICAN

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

Cayman Is. (U.K.)

BELIZE Belmopan

(U.S.)

Aruba

Barranquilla San José Cartagena Colon

Clipperton Island (FRANCE)

COSTA RICA

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

Bogotá

Isla de Malpelo

Cali

Equator

COLOMBIA

Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

(U.S.)

(ECUADOR)

(BRAZIL)

ECUADOR

Belém

Guayaquil

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

Equator

Annobon

K I R I B A T I

ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

Trujillo

PERU

Ascension

BRAZIL

SOCIETY ISLANDS (Fr. Poly.)

Lago Titicaca

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

La Paz

Goiânia

BOLIVIA

Arequipa

F r e n c h

Belo Horizonte

Sucre

P o l y n e s i a

Martin Vaz Trindade

(FRANCE)

(BRAZIL)

Tropic of Capricorn

PARAGUAY

(23˚27')

Adamstown

Asunción

Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)

Isla San Felíx (CHILE)

Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)

Easter Island (CHILE)

Moroni

San Miguel de Tucumán

Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)

Santiago

ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE) Concepción

A

Y

S

I

(FRANCE)

Tarawa

Equator

N

Yaren NAURU District

D

O Java Sea

N

E

Ujungpandang

Semarang Surabaya

S

I

INDIAN

Arafura Sea

Port Louis MAURITIUS

Johannesburg

Maputo

A U S T R A L I A

Mbabane

(U.S.)

TONGA

SOUTH PACIFIC

(AUSTL.)

30

Durban Perth

OCEAN

Lord Howe Island

KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)

(AUSTL.)

Cape Town

Montevideo

Adelaide

Port Elizabeth

ARGENTINA

Great Australian Bight

Île Amsterdam TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)

Île Saint-Paul

Canberra

Sydney Auckland

Melbourne

NEW ZEALAND

Tasman Sea

Gough Island (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)

ÎLES CROZET (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

SNARES ISLANDS (N.Z.)

Stanley

Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.)

Bouvet Island (NORWAY)

Scotia Sea Drake Passage

AUCKLAND ISLANDS (N.Z.)

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

Punta Arenas

Macquarie Island (AUSTL.)

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

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

Campbell Island (N.Z.)

60 SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Antarctic Circle (66˚33')

April 2000

Amery Ice Shelf

Bellingshausen Sea

Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea

a

Ross Sea

Ross Sea

Antarctica

Ronne Ice Shelf Ross Ice Shelf

b

90

60

30

0

30

Serbia and Montenegro have asserted the formation of a joint independent state, but this entity has not been formally recognized as a state by the United States.

b Nineteen

Ross Ice Shelf 120

Suva

Niue (N.Z.)

Nuku'alofa

Norfolk Island

Brisbane

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

150

American Samoa

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (23˚27')

LESOTHO SWAZILAND SOUTH Maseru

Buenos Aires

60

Port-Vila

Reunion

URUGUAY

Puerto Montt

Antarctic Circle (66˚33')

Coral Sea Islands

FIJI

New Caledonia (FRANCE)

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

OCEAN

VANUATU (AUSTL.)

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

PACIFIC

SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago

Wallis and Futuna

Coral Sea Re ef

Tokelau (N.Z.)

Alice Springs

Pretoria

Bahía Blanca

SOUTH

Funafuti

TUVALU

Honiara

Cairns

(FRANCE)

Europa Island

Gulf of Carpentaria

OCEAN SaintDenis

K I R I B A T I

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Port Moresby

Darwin

(AUSTL.)

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

Bismarck Sea

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

(FRANCE)

Antananarivo

MADAGASCAR

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

A

Banda Sea

Timor Sea

(AUSTL.)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Tromelin Island

Mozambique Channel

Beira

(FRANCE)

AFRICA

La Plata

Majuro

Palikir

Celebes Sea

A

Gaborone

Córdoba Rosario

Koror

PALAU

Christmas Island

(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)

MOZAMBIQUE

BOTSWANA

Curitiba

Pôrto Alegre

Mendoza

L

Bandung

(FRANCE)

(U.K.)

CHILE

Diego Garcia

Glorioso Islands

Juan de Nova Island (FR.)

Bassas da India

St. Helena

30

MALAWI

NAMIBIA Walvis Bay

MARSHALL ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

BRUNEI

Jakarta

Mayotte

Lilongwe

ZIMBABWE Windhoek

Cebu

East Timor

Lake Nyasa

Harare

OCEAN

Hagåtña

SPRATLY ISLANDS

(U.K.)

Dar es Salaam

Lusaka

Rio de Janeiro São Paulo

Antofagasta

ÎLES TUBUAI (Fr. Poly.)

(BRAZIL)

(U.S.)

(Agana)

Ho Chi Minh City

I

British Indian Ocean Territory

COMOROS

ATLANTIC

Santa Cruz

Victoria

Mombasa

TANZANIA

Namibe

St. Helena

PHILIPPINES

Palembang

SEYCHELLES

(St. Helena)

Saipan

Guam

Singapore SINGAPORE

Nairobi

BURUNDI

Lake Tanganyika

ZAMBIA

SOUTH

Brasília

(U.S.)

Manila

Davao

Medan

(U.S.)

Barrier

(N.Z.)

Sea

t Grea

Cook Islands

Wake Island Northern Mariana Islands

Bandar Seri Begawan Kuala Lumpur M A

Tropic of Cancer (23˚27')

Philippine

South China Sea

NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)

SRI LANKA

(JAPAN)

Pontianak

Lubumbashi

Salvador

Colombo

Mogadishu

ANGOLA Cusco

Andaman Sea

(INDIA)

(U.S.)

PARACEL ISLANDS

CAMBODIA

Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand

U

Midway Islands Marcus Island

Hainan Dao

VIETNAM

Bangkok

Y

K

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

Hue

THAILAND ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)

Chennai (Madras)

Gulf of

Vientiane Tonkin

KENYA

Lake Victoria Bujumbura

OF THE CONGO

Kinshasa

Maceió

Lima

Rangoon

LAKSHADWEEP

Luanda

(St. Helena)

Chiang Mai

Bengal Bangalore

R

30

Taiwan

Hanoi

LAOS

MALDIVES UGANDA

Taipei

Nanning

Male

Kampala

Okinawa

Guangzhou

BURMA

- Hyderabad

SOMALIA

RWANDA Kigali

(Cabinda)

Recife

Pune

Laccadive Sea

Juba

Guiyang

INDIA

Berbera

East China Sea

Nanchang

Changsha

Dhaka

Calcutta Nagpur

ETHIOPIA

REPUBLIC ANGOLA

Natal

(YEMEN)

Hangzhou

BANGLADESH - Ahmadabad

Arabian Sea

Socotra

Djibouti

Addis Ababa

Brazzaville

Fortaleza

Teresina

DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden

Chongqing

Thimphu

Bay of

YEMEN

Shanghai

Wuhan

Kunming

Sanaa

Asmara

Yokohama

Fukuoka

DEMOCRATIC

(EQUA. GUI.)

(BRAZIL)

Kathmandu

Kanpur

OMAN

ERITREA

Khartoum

Kisangani

Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO

São Tome

Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha

São Luís

Manaus

Iquitos

CHAD

Niamey

Penedos de São Pedro e São Paulo

Quito

Jarvis Island

SENEGAL

Omdurman

Lucknow

¯ Karachi

Muscat

Mumbai (Bombay)

SUDAN

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

VENEZUELA

NIGER

Banjul BURKINA Bamako FASO THE GAMBIA Kano Ouagadougou Bissau N'Djamena GUINEA GUINEA-BISSAU BENIN NIGERIA Conakry Abuja CÔTE TOGO Freetown Ogbomoso D'IVOIRE GHANA SIERRA Ibadan Yamoussoukro CENTRAL LEONE Lagos Lomé AFRICAN REPUBLIC Accra Monrovia PortoAbidjan CAMEROON LIBERIA Novo Bangui Douala Malabo Yaoundé EQUATORIAL GUINEA Gulf of Guinea

Port-of-Spain

Caracas

Medellín

Praia

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

Maracaibo

Panama PANAMA

Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)

Martinique (FR.) ST. LUCIA

ARABIA

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

MALI Tombouctou

Dakar

Doha Abu Dhabi

Lhasa BHUTAN

NEPAL

Jaipur

OMAN

Port Sudan

CAPE VERDE

DOMINICA

(U.K.)

(NETH.)

MAURITANIA

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)

(U.S.) Montserrat

Caribbean Sea

Nouakchott

ST. KITTS AND NEVIS

Jiddah Mecca

New Delhi

PAKISTAN

Persian Gulf

QATAR Red Sea

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

BAHRAIN

Manama Riyadh

Aswan

(U.K.)

CUBA

GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua

(U.S.)

0

EGYPT

Turks and Caicos Islands

Puebla

Acapulco

SAUDI

Xi'an

Chengdu

Shiraz ¯

Tokyo Nagoya Osaka

Pusan

O

León

(U.S.)

LIBYA

KUWAIT

Kuwait

PACIFIC OCEAN

JAPAN

Nanjing

Lahore Quetta

Al Jizah

ALGERIA

Kandahar ¯

IRAN

Al Basrah

JORDAN

CHINA

Chinese line of control

Yellow Sea

Qingdao

Zhengzhou

Seoul SOUTH KOREA

OT

Honolulu

Esfahan ¯ ¸

Baghdad

Tel Aviv-Yafo ISRAEL Alexandria Jerusalem Amman

- Banghazi

Lanzhou

Kabul

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad ¯ ¯ ¯

Jinan

NORTH

Sea of Japan

NORTH KOREA P'yongyang

Tianjin

Taiyuan Indian claim

IRAQ

Damascus

Beirut

Kashi Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN

Mashhad

Tehran ¯

Beijing

)

MEXICO

LEB.

CYPRUS

(GR.)

Havana

Mazatlán

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Crete

SYRIA

Baotou

N PA

Gulf of Mexico

Tripoli

Laayoune (El Aaiún)

THE BAHAMAS Nassau

Aleppo

Nicosia

Mediterranean Sea

Mosul Karkuk

Sapporo

Shenyang

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN

Ashgabat

¯ Tabriz

Vladivostok

Tashkent

TURKMENISTAN

occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

Changchun Ürümqi

H - S

Matamoros

Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA

Baku

Adana

Cairo

CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)

Yerevan

TURKEY Konya

UZBEKISTAN

Harbin

(JA

Monterrey

·Izmir

Caspian Sea

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Ankara

KURIL ISLANDS

MONGOLIA Almaty

GEORGIA

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar

Lake Balkhash

Aral Sea

T'bilisi

Bursa

Athens

MOROCCO

San Antonio

Rostov Sea of Azov

(IT.)

Marrakech

Jacksonville

Miami

Palermo

Rabat

KAZAKHSTAN

Atyrau¯ (Atyrau)

Volgograd

PO

Houston

30

Tropic of Cancer (23˚27')

Casablanca

Kharkiv

·Istanbul

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

(U.S.)

Sakhalin

M

Ciudad Juárez

Oran

(SP.)

MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)

(U.K.)

New Orleans

Algiers

Gibraltar(U.K.)

BULGARIA

Skopje

GREECE

(IT.)

Sicily

Melilla

Astana

NA

El Paso

Sardinia

BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)

Sevilla

OCEAN

Atlanta

Phoenix

San Diego Tijuana Mexicali

Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)

SPAIN

Ceuta (SP.)

Los Angeles

Podgorica ALB. Rome Tirana Naples

Barcelona Valencia

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Irkutsk

Saratov

Black Sea

Sofia

Sea of Okhotsk

Barnaul

a

Serbia

Mont.

VATICAN CITY

(FR.)

Madrid

PORTUGAL Lisbon

NORTH

Baltimore

STATES

Corsica

ANDORRA

BOS. & HERZ.

Lake Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Qaraghandy (Karaganda)

UKRAINE

SLOVAKIA

ITALY Sarajevo

Chelyabinsk

Kiev

L'viv

Bratislava MOLDOVA Donets'k Budapest Chisinau ¸ HUNGARY Bern Ljubljana ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA Milan Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest SAN

MONACO

Marseille

Bilbao

Krasnoyarsk

Samara Voronezh

AUSTRIA

Turin MARINO

Kazan'

BELARUS

Kraków

Prague

Yekaterinburg Ufa

Vienna

LIECH.

SWITZ.

Lyon Bordeaux

(FRANCE)

New York Philadelphia

Columbus

St. Louis San Francisco

Montréal

Lake Erie

Indianapolis

Denver

Munich

Moscow

Bering Sea

Perm'

Minsk

´ ´ Lodz

CZECH REP.

60

)

PACIFIC

Lille

Paris

Boston

Cleveland

GERMANY Luxembourg

Brussels

FRANCE

Lake Ontario

Detroit

Chicago

Salt Lake City

OCEAN

Toronto

Milwaukee

Cologne Berlin

BELGIUM LUX.

Québec

Lake Huron Ottawa

POLAND Warsaw

Nizhniy Novgorod

Yaroslavl'

)

Seattle

NETH.

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

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Lake Superior

Vilnius

RUSSIA

Hamburg

Amsterdam

KINGDOM London

Celtic Sea

Magadan St. Petersburg

Manchester

Isle of Man (U.K.)

Yakutsk

Helsinki

Baltic Riga LAT. Sea LITH.

North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen

Glasgow Belfast

R U S S I A

FINLAND

Tallinn EST.

(U.K.)

CANADA NDS

Oslo

Rockall

UNITED

Arkhangel'sk

Gulf of Bothnia

(DEN.)

Tórshavn

Hudson Bay

60

Gulf of Alaska

Reykjavík

Anadyr'

SWEDEN

Faroe Islands

-

Great Slave Lake

ICELAND

-

Yellowknife Anchorage

Denmark Strait

Nuuk (Godthåb)

IS L A N D S AN )

Davis Strait

White Sea

U

Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay)

NORWAY

AP

Great Bear Lake

Fairbanks

Y

U. S.

Sea

Cherskiy

Arctic Circle (66˚33') Nome

Wrangel Island

East Siberian Sea

(DENMARK)

(J

Sicily / AZORES

60

90

120

150

180

of 26 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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