Political World Map

Political Map of the World, November 2004 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')

Great Slave Lake

Whitehorse

Churchill

Juneau

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

Dublin IRELAND Island of Newfoundland

Calgary Winnipeg

Seattle

Minneapolis

Portland

Lake Michigan

NORTH PACIFIC

UNITED

Bay of Biscay

St. Pierre and Miquelon

Halifax

Washington, D.C.

AZORES (PORT.)

ATLANTIC

Dallas

Bermuda New Orleans

León

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Mérida

Guadalajara

Mexico

(U.S.)

ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)

Johnston Atoll

Puebla Oaxaca

Acapulco

DOMINICAN

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

Cayman Is. (U.K.)

BELIZE Belmopan

(U.S.)

GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua Clipperton Island

COSTA RICA

(FRANCE)

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

Aruba

Barranquilla San José Cartagena Colon

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Bogotá

Isla de Malpelo

Cali

COLOMBIA

Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne

Niamey

SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO

Equator

(BRAZIL)

Quito

Jarvis Island

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

(U.S.)

(ECUADOR)

ECUADOR

Belém

Guayaquil

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

Equator

Annobon

ANGOLA

Natal

ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

Trujillo

PERU

Ascension

(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

Goiânia

BOLIVIA

Arequipa

Belo Horizonte

Sucre

P o l y n e s i a

Martin Vaz Trindade

(FRANCE)

PARAGUAY

(23˚27')

Adamstown

Asunción

Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)

Isla San Felíx (CHILE)

Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)

Easter Island (CHILE)

Dodoma

San Miguel de Tucumán

Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)

TANZANIA

Santiago

ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE) Concepción

A

Y

S

I

Celebes Sea

A

Tarawa

Equator

BOTSWANA

N

O

N

Makassar

E

Java Sea

S

I

(FRANCE)

Semarang Surabaya

Arafura Sea

INDIAN

Tromelin Island

MADAGASCAR

Gulf of Carpentaria

(AUSTL.)

OCEAN SaintDenis

Port Louis MAURITIUS

American Samoa

Suva

Niue (N.Z.)

(U.S.)

New Caledonia (FRANCE)

Nuku'alofa

TONGA

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (23˚27')

Maputo

A U S T R A L I A

Mbabane

LESOTHO SWAZILAND SOUTH Maseru

SOUTH PACIFIC

Norfolk Island

Brisbane

(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

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

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

60

Port-Vila

FIJI

Alice Springs

Johannesburg

Buenos Aires

Puerto Montt

Antarctic Circle (66˚33')

Coral Sea Islands

Reunion

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

OCEAN

SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago

Wallis and Futuna

VANUATU

URUGUAY

Bahía Blanca

PACIFIC

Tokelau (N.Z.)

(AUSTL.)

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

SOUTH

Funafuti

Coral Sea Re ef

0

K I R I B A T I

TUVALU

Honiara

Cairns

(FRANCE)

Europa Island

Darwin

(FRANCE)

Antananarivo

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Port Moresby

Timor Sea Ashmore and Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Dili

(AUSTL.)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

A

Banda Sea

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

Yaren NAURU District

D

Bandung

Glorioso Islands

Mozambique Channel

Beira

(FRANCE)

AFRICA

La Plata

Majuro

Palikir

PALAU

Christmas Island

(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)

MOZAMBIQUE

Pretoria

Córdoba Rosario

Koror

Gaborone

Pôrto Alegre

Mendoza

Diego Garcia

(FRANCE)

(U.K.)

CHILE

L

(U.K.)

Juan de Nova Island (FR.)

Bassas da India

Curitiba

MARSHALL ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

BRUNEI

Jakarta

Mayotte

MALAWI

ZIMBABWE

Walvis Bay

Hagåtña

SPRATLY ISLANDS

I

British Indian Ocean Territory

SEYCHELLES Moroni

Lilongwe

NAMIBIA Windhoek

Cebu

EAST TIMOR

Lake Nyasa

Harare

St. Helena

30

Victoria

Dar es Salaam

Lusaka

OCEAN

Ho Chi Minh City

(U.S.)

Palembang

Mombasa

BURUNDI

Namibe

St. Helena

Rio de Janeiro São Paulo

Antofagasta

ÎLES TUBUAI (Fr. Poly.)

(BRAZIL)

(BRAZIL)

Tropic of Capricorn

Nairobi

COMOROS

(St. Helena)

Guam

PHILIPPINES

Singapore SINGAPORE

KENYA

Lake Victoria Bujumbura

Lake Tanganyika

ATLANTIC

Santa Cruz

F r e n c h

Mogadishu

Saipan

Pontianak

ZAMBIA

SOUTH

Brasília

La Paz

(U.S.)

Manila

Davao

Medan

(U.S.)

Barrier

SOCIETY ISLANDS

Lago Titicaca

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)

Sea

t Grea

(N.Z.)

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

MALDIVES

ANGOLA

Cook Islands

Colombo

Male

Lubumbashi

Salvador

Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand

(U.S.) (JAPAN)

PARACEL ISLANDS

CAMBODIA

Andaman Sea

Midway Islands Marcus Island

Hainan Dao

VIETNAM

Bangkok

Y

K

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

Hue

ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)

Chennai (Madras)

Gulf of

Vientiane Tonkin

THAILAND

Bengal

Laccadive Sea

UGANDA

Chiang Mai

Rangoon

(INDIA)

Luanda

Lima

LAOS

Bangalore

R

U

30

Taiwan

Hanoi

BURMA

- Hyderabad

SOMALIA

Kampala

Taipei Guangzhou

LAKSHADWEEP

Berbera

Juba

OF THE CONGO

Kinshasa

Maceió

Cusco

(YEMEN)

Okinawa

Nanning

INDIA Pune

Arabian Sea

Socotra

Djibouti

RWANDA Kigali

(Cabinda)

(St. Helena)

BRAZIL

Nagpur

Bay of

Gulf of Aden

East China Sea

Nanchang

Changsha Guiyang

Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta)

- Ahmadabad

ETHIOPIA

REPUBLIC

Fortaleza

DJIBOUTI

Addis Ababa

Brazzaville

Recife

Muscat

Sanaa Aden

Thimphu

Hangzhou

Kunming

YEMEN

Asmara

Chongqing

DEMOCRATIC

(EQUA. GUI.)

(BRAZIL)

Teresina

K I R I B A T I

Khartoum

Kisangani

Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO

São Tome

ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA

São Luís

Manaus

Iquitos

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

OMAN

ERITREA

SUDAN

Port-of-Spain

VENEZUELA

SENEGAL

CHAD

Kathmandu

Kanpur

Shanghai

Wuhan

BANGLADESH

Mumbai (Bombay)

Omdurman

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 PENEDOS DE Gulf of Guinea

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

Caracas

Medellín

Praia

NIGER

Lucknow

¯ Karachi

MALI Tombouctou

Dakar

Martinique (FR.) ST. LUCIA

Jiddah Mecca

ARABIA

Abu Dhabi

Lhasa BHUTAN

NEPAL

Jaipur

OMAN

Port Sudan

CAPE VERDE

DOMINICA

Maracaibo

Panama PANAMA

MAURITANIA

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)

(U.K.)

(NETH.)

Nouakchott

ST. KITTS AND NEVIS

(U.S.) Montserrat

Caribbean Sea

Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

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

Manama Doha

New Delhi

PAKISTAN

Persian Gulf

QATAR Red Sea

(U.K.)

CUBA

BAHRAIN

Riyadh

Aswan

Turks and Caicos Islands

Cancún

Veracruz

(U.S.)

0

Western Sahara

Chengdu

Shiraz ¯

Yokohama

Fukuoka

TO

MEXICO

SAUDI

EGYPT

Havana

Mazatlán

Honolulu

LIBYA

KUWAIT

Kuwait

Xi'an Nanjing

Lahore Quetta

Al Jizah

Tokyo Nagoya Osaka

Pusan

N) PA

Gulf of Mexico

Al Basrah

JORDAN

Kandahar ¯

IRAN

PACIFIC OCEAN

JAPAN

HO - S

Tropic of Cancer (23˚27')

Matamoros

Baghdad

Tel Aviv-Yafo ISRAEL Alexandria Jerusalem Amman

- Banghazi

Yellow Sea

Qingdao

Zhengzhou

CHINA

Line of Actual Control

Seoul SOUTH KOREA

Jinan

NORTH

Sea of Japan

NORTH KOREA Pyongyang

Tianjin

Lanzhou

Indian claim

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

Esfahan ¯ ¸

Beijing Taiyuan

1972 Line of Control

Kabul

Sapporo

Shenyang Baotou

Kashi Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN

Mashhad

Tehran

Vladivostok

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN

Ashgabat

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

Changchun Ürümqi

Tashkent

TURKMENISTAN

IRAQ

Damascus

Beirut

ALGERIA Laayoune (El Aaiún)

THE BAHAMAS Nassau

SYRIA

LEB.

CYPRUS

(GR.)

Mosul Kirkuk

Harbin

(JA

Monterrey

Tripoli

Baku ¯ Tabriz

Aleppo

Cairo

CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)

San Antonio

Miami

Crete

Mediterranean Sea

MOROCCO

Jacksonville

Yerevan

Adana

Nicosia

UZBEKISTAN

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

Ankara

Konya

Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA

Caspian Sea

TURKEY

Athens

MONGOLIA Almaty

Tbilisi

KURIL ISLANDS

Lake Balkhash

Aral Sea

GEORGIA

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar

PO

Houston

Rostov Sea of Azov

·Istanbul

·Izmir

KAZAKHSTAN

Atyrau¯ (Atyrau)

Volgograd

Black Sea Bursa

(U.S.)

Sakhalin

Kharkiv

(IT.)

Rabat

Astana Qaraghandy (Karaganda)

UKRAINE

MACEDONIA

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Irkutsk

Saratov

M

Ciudad Juárez 30

Palermo

Marrakech

(U.K.)

Samara

Sofia

Sea of Okhotsk

Barnaul

NA

El Paso

Tijuana Mexicali

Algiers Oran

(SP.)

Casablanca

L'viv

Lake Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Kiev

GREECE

(IT.)

Krasnoyarsk

Chelyabinsk

Ufa

Voronezh

BULGARIA

Tirana

Naples

Yekaterinburg Kazan'

BELARUS

Skopje

ALB.

Sardinia

BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)

Gibraltar(U.K.) MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)

SER.& MONT.

Sicily

Melilla

OCEAN

Atlanta

Phoenix

San Diego

Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)

SPAIN

Rome

Sevilla Ceuta (SP.)

Los Angeles

VATICAN CITY

(FR.)

Barcelona Madrid Valencia

PORTUGAL Lisbon

NORTH

BOS. & HER.

ITALY Sarajevo

Corsica

ANDORRA

Baltimore

STATES

Turin MARINO

60

Bering Sea

Perm'

Minsk

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

MONACO

Marseille

Bilbao

Moscow

Vienna

LIECH.

Nizhniy Novgorod

Yaroslavl'

SLOVAKIA

Munich

Lyon Bordeaux

(FRANCE)

Boston

Columbus

St. Louis San Francisco

Montréal

New York Philadelphia

Indianapolis

Denver

Lille

BELGIUM LUX.

Paris

Lake Erie

Cleveland

Brussels

FRANCE

Lake Ontario

Detroit

Chicago

Salt Lake City

OCEAN

Toronto

Milwaukee

NETH.

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

Québec

Lake Huron Ottawa

POLAND Warsaw Berlin Cologne ´ ´ Lodz GERMANY Kraków Prague Luxembourg CZECH REP. Hamburg

Amsterdam

KINGDOM

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Lake Superior

Vilnius

RUSSIA

Manchester

Isle of Man (U.K.)

London Celtic Sea

Baltic Riga LAT. Sea LITH.

North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen

UNITED

Glasgow Belfast

Magadan St. Petersburg

Tallinn EST.

(U.K.)

Labrador Sea

Yakutsk

Helsinki

Rockall

Lake Winnipeg Vancouver

Oslo

R U S S I A

FINLAND

Stockholm

Edmonton

NDS ISLA

Arkhangel'sk

Gulf of Bothnia

(DEN.)

Tórshavn

Bergen

CANADA TIAN ALEU

Reykjavík

Hudson Bay

60

Gulf of Alaska

Nuuk (Godthåb)

Anadyr'

SWEDEN

Faroe Islands

-

Yellowknife Anchorage

ICELAND

Denmark Strait

-

Davis Strait

IS L A N D S AN )

Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay)

White Sea

U

Fairbanks

NORWAY

AP

Great Bear Lake

Y

U. S.

Sea

Cherskiy

Arctic Circle (66˚33') Nome

Wrangel Island

East Siberian Sea

(DENMARK)

(J

Sicily / AZORES

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') Amery Ice Shelf

Bellingshausen Sea

Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea

Ross Sea

Ross Sea Ronne Ice Shelf

A n t a r c t i c a*

Ross Ice Shelf

* Twenty

Ross Ice Shelf 150

120

90

60

30

0

30

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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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