World Map

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 38°N and 38°S

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

0

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Laptev Sea

Tiksi

Norwegian Sea

Jan Mayen

Baffin Island

(NORWAY)

Chukchi

Noril'sk

Murmansk

Arctic Circle (66°33')

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.)

0

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

Caribbean Sea

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)

CAPE VERDE

DOMINICA

(U.K.)

Aruba

(NETH.)

Barranquilla San José 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

Bogotá

COLOMBIA

Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne

(BRAZIL)

ECUADOR Guayaquil

ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)

Belém

Manaus

Iquitos

São Luís Fortaleza

(Fr. Poly.)

Goiânia

BOLIVIA

Arequipa

Tropic of Capricorn

ATLANTIC

PARAGUAY

(23°27')

Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)

Isla San Felíx (CHILE)

Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)

Easter Island (CHILE)

San Miguel de Tucumán

Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)

(BRAZIL)

Walvis Bay

Santiago

ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE) Concepción

PHILIPPINES

Ho Chi Minh City

Buenos Aires

Lake Nyasa

Moroni

Cebu

Y

S

I

La Plata

ARGENTINA

MALAWI

Celebes Sea

A

Tarawa

Mozambique Channel

Beira

Yaren NAURU District

MADAGASCAR

Reunion

E

S

I

A

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

N

(AUSTL.)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

INDIAN

(FRANCE)

SaintDenis

O

Makassar

Java Sea

Christmas Island

Tromelin Island

Antananarivo

D

East Timor

(FRANCE)

(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)

MOZAMBIQUE

N Bandung

Glorioso Islands

Nuku'alofa

TONGA

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (23°27')

(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

Île Amsterdam

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)

Île 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

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

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

Bouvet Island (NORWAY)

Punta Arenas

Antarctic Circle (66°33')

Majuro

Palikir

Equator

Jakarta Diego Garcia

Gough Island

60

MARSHALL ISLANDS

PALAU

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

OCEAN

Koror

BRUNEI

A

Hagåtña

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Bandar Seri Begawan

I

British Indian Ocean Territory

Mayotte

Lilongwe

BOTSWANA

Cape Town

Puerto Montt

PACIFIC

(U.S.)

SPRATLY ISLANDS

L

Saipan

Guam

URUGUAY

Bahía Blanca

SOUTH

TANZANIA

(FRANCE)

AFRICA

Córdoba Rosario

Medan

(U.S.)

(U.S.)

Davao

Kuala Lumpur M A

Wake Island Northern Mariana Islands

Manila

South China Sea

LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru

Pôrto 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 (23°27')

Taiwan

Hainan Dao

CAMBODIA

(U.S.)

Marcus Island (JAPAN)

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

Hue

Bangkok

K

Singapore SINGAPORE

Mombasa

BURUNDI

ZIMBABWE

St. Helena

30

Male

Gulf of

Vientiane Tonkin

THAILAND

Andaman Sea

Colombo

Nanning

Y

U

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 São Paulo

Asunción

Kampala

Hanoi

BURMA

LAKSHADWEEP

Laccadive Sea

R

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

Maceió

(BRAZIL)

Antofagasta

Adamstown

Ascension

(St. Helena)

Trindade

(FRANCE)

(Fr. Poly.)

(Cabinda)

Belo Horizonte

Sucre

P o l y n e s i a

ÎLES TUBUAI

ANGOLA

Brasília

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

São 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

Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha

Recife

Trujillo

Dakar

Kandahar ¯

Shiraz ¯

QATAR

Jiddah Mecca

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad ¯ ¯ ¯

Port Sudan

Tombouctou

Penedos de São Pedro e São 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 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

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Caracas

Medellín

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

O

Mexico

(U.S.)

Rabat

Changchun Ürümqi

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN

Tashkent

TURKMENISTAN

¯ Tabriz

Aleppo

Nicosia Crete

Baku

Harbin

OT

Guadalajara

Cancún

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

Mérida

Algiers

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

MONGOLIA

Aral Sea Almaty

·Istanbul

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar

Lake Balkhash

N PA

León

Tirana

Rostov Sea of Azov

Qaraghandy (Karaganda)

KAZAKHSTAN

Atyrau¯ (Atyrau)

Volgograd

(U.S.)

Sakhalin

H - S

MEXICO

Honolulu

(IT.)

Laayoune (El Aaiún)

THE BAHAMAS Nassau

Havana

Mazatlán

Oran

Kharkiv

Black Sea

Sofia

BULGARIA

Sardinia

BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)

Astana

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Irkutsk

(JA

Tropic of Cancer (23°27')

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

M

Ciudad Juárez

ANDORRA

Yekaterinburg Kazan'

Minsk

AUSTRIA

Turin MARINO

Marseille

Moscow

BELARUS

Kraków

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

Montréal

Lake Ontario

Lake Erie

Cleveland

Indianapolis

Denver

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Québec

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.)

Tórshavn

Anadyr'

White Sea

SWEDEN

Faroe Islands

Reykjavík

Hudson Bay

60

Gulf of Alaska

Nuuk (Godthåb)

NORWAY

ICELAND

-

Yellowknife

Denmark Strait

-

Davis Strait

IS L A N D S AN )

Iqaluit

(Frobisher Bay)

U

Great Bear Lake

Fairbanks

AP

U. S.

Sea

Cherskiy

Arctic Circle (66°33') Nome

Wrangel Island

East Siberian Sea

(DENMARK)

Y

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 (66°33') 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

0

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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