Political Map of the World, April 2006 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
Gulf of Alaska
Churchill
Juneau
Bergen
Stockholm
Happy ValleyGoose Bay
Edmonton
DS
LAN N IS
Lake Winnipeg
Island of Newfoundland
Calgary Winnipeg
Vancouver
Minneapolis
Portland
Lake Michigan
PACIFIC
UNITED
Montréal
Bay of Biscay
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Halifax
Bilbao
NORTH
Washington, D.C.
AZORES (PORT.)
ATLANTIC
Dallas
Bermuda
El Paso
Guadalajara
Mexico
(U.S.)
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Johnston Atoll
LIBYA
Cancún
Veracruz
Oaxaca
Acapulco
(U.K.)
Western Sahara
BELIZE Belmopan
COSTA RICA
(FRANCE)
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
DOMINICAN
(U.S.)
Aswan
Aruba
COLOMBIA
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne
SENEGAL
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(U.S.)
(ECUADOR)
(BRAZIL)
ECUADOR
Belém
Guayaquil
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Equator
Annobon
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
Trujillo
PERU
Ascension
(Fr. Poly.)
Papeete
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)
San Miguel de Tucumán
Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
TANZANIA
Santiago
ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE) Concepción
(U.S.)
Cebu
S
Koror
I
PALAU Celebes Sea
A
Tarawa
Diego Garcia
D
O
N
Makassar
E
Java Sea
S
I
INDIAN
Arafura Sea
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Darwin Gulf of Carpentaria
(AUSTL.)
OCEAN SaintDenis
Port Louis MAURITIUS
Coral Sea Islands
Port-Vila
FIJI
American Samoa
Suva
Niue (N.Z.)
(U.S.)
(AUSTL.)
New Caledonia (FRANCE)
Reunion
Nuku'alofa
TONGA
Noumea
Tropic of Capricorn (23°27') Alice Springs
Johannesburg
Maputo
A U S T R A L I A
Mbabane SWAZILAND
SOUTH PACIFIC
Norfolk Island
Brisbane
LESOTHO SOUTH Maseru
(AUSTL.)
30
Durban Perth
OCEAN
Lord Howe Island
KERMADEC ISLANDS (N.Z.)
(AUSTL.)
Cape Town
Buenos Aires 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
Puerto Montt
(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
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago
VANUATU
URUGUAY
60
Tokelau (N.Z.)
Wallis and Futuna
Coral Sea Re ef
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
OCEAN
Funafuti
TUVALU
Honiara
Cairns
(FRANCE)
Europa Island
Timor Sea
Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0
K I R I B A T I
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Port Moresby
(FRANCE)
Antananarivo
MADAGASCAR
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Dili
(AUSTL.)
(AUSTL.)
A
Banda Sea
Semarang Surabaya
Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Tromelin Island
Mozambique Channel (FRANCE)
BOTSWANA
N Bandung
(FRANCE)
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
MOZAMBIQUE Beira
Yaren NAURU District
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
PACIFIC
Majuro
Palikir
Equator
Jakarta
Glorioso Islands
Juan de Nova Island (FR.)
AFRICA
La Plata
MARSHALL ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
BRUNEI
Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE
(U.K.)
Mayotte
MALAWI
Pretoria
Bahía Blanca
SOUTH
Hagåtña
SPRATLY ISLANDS
Gaborone
Córdoba Rosario
Ho Chi Minh City
I
(FRANCE)
Pôrto Alegre
Mendoza
PHILIPPINES
Davao
British Indian Ocean Territory
SEYCHELLES Moroni
Bassas da India
Curitiba
Saipan
Guam
EAST TIMOR
Lilongwe
ZIMBABWE
(U.K.)
CHILE
Victoria
Dar es Salaam
Lake Nyasa
NAMIBIA Windhoek
(U.S.)
Bandar Seri Begawan Medan
(U.S.)
Manila
South China Sea
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
SRI LANKA
Sea
Palembang
Mombasa
Dodoma
Harare
Walvis Bay
Colombo
Nairobi
Lusaka
OCEAN
Andaman Sea
(INDIA)
COMOROS
St. Helena
30
LAKSHADWEEP
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
Wake Island Northern Mariana Islands
PARACEL ISLANDS
CAMBODIA
Mogadishu
BURUNDI
Lake Tanganyika
(St. Helena)
Rio de Janeiro São Paulo
Antofagasta
ÎLES TUBUAI (Fr. Poly.)
(BRAZIL)
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
Chennai (Madras)
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Philippine
Hainan Dao
VIETNAM
Bangkok
KENYA
Lake Victoria Bujumbura
OF THE CONGO
Kinshasa
ATLANTIC
Santa Cruz
Bengal
(JAPAN)
Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R. S.A.R.
Hue
THAILAND
(U.S.)
Marcus Island
Pontianak
Namibe
St. Helena
Rangoon
MALDIVES
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasília
La Paz
Chiang Mai
Gulf of
Vientiane Tonkin
K
Barrier
SOCIETY ISLANDS
Lago Titicaca
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)
Nanning
LAOS
Y
U
Midway Islands
Taiwan
Hanoi
Pyinmana
Bangalore
R
Guangzhou
Male
Kampala
Taipei
Mandalay
BURMA
- Hyderabad
Laccadive Sea
UGANDA
Okinawa
30
t Grea
(N.Z.)
Pune
SOMALIA
ANGOLA
Cook Islands
(YEMEN)
East China Sea
Nanchang
Changsha Guiyang
INDIA
Berbera
Juba
Lubumbashi
Salvador
Nagpur
Arabian Sea
Socotra
Djibouti
RWANDA Kigali
Maceió
Cusco
Gulf of Aden
Luanda
Lima
Kolkata Dhaka (Calcutta)
- Ahmadabad
Bay of
Aden DJIBOUTI
Thimphu
Hangzhou
Kunming
Sanaa
Asmara
Chongqing
DEMOCRATIC
(Cabinda)
(St. Helena)
BRAZIL
Muscat
ETHIOPIA
REPUBLIC ANGOLA
Natal
Recife
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Shanghai
Wuhan
BANGLADESH
YEMEN
Addis Ababa
Brazzaville
Fortaleza
Kathmandu
Kanpur
OMAN
ERITREA
Khartoum
Kisangani
(EQUA. GUI.)
(BRAZIL)
Teresina
K I R I B A T I
CHAD
Libreville REP. OF THE GABON CONGO
São Tome
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA
São Luís
Manaus
Iquitos
Omdurman
Niamey
SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
Quito
ARABIA
Lucknow
¯ Karachi
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 PENEDOS DE Gulf of Guinea
Port-of-Spain
Bogotá Cali
Praia
Jiddah Mecca
Abu Dhabi
Lhasa BHUTAN
NEPAL
Jaipur
OMAN
MALI Tombouctou
Dakar
Martinique (FR.) ST. VINCENT AND ST. LUCIA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS Neth. Antilles (NETH.) GRENADA
Caracas
Medellín Isla de Malpelo
Equator
QATAR
New Delhi
PAKISTAN
Persian Gulf
Yokohama
Fukuoka
Chengdu
Shiraz ¯
Port Sudan
CAPE VERDE
DOMINICA
Maracaibo
Panama PANAMA
MAURITANIA
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.K.)
(NETH.)
Barranquilla San José Cartagena Colon
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.)
BAHRAIN
Manama Doha Riyadh
Red Sea
Port-au- REPUBLIC Prince JAMAICA Kingston Navassa HAITI Santo Puerto Domingo Rico Island
GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua
Jarvis Island
EGYPT
(U.K.)
CUBA Cayman Is.
Clipperton Island
SAUDI
Turks and Caicos Islands
Puebla
(U.S.)
0
ALGERIA
KUWAIT
Kuwait
Xi'an Nanjing
Lahore Quetta
Al Jizah
Tokyo Nagoya Osaka
Pusan
O
Mérida
Al Basrah
JORDAN
Cairo
Kandahar ¯
IRAN
PACIFIC OCEAN
JAPAN
OT
León
Baghdad
Tel Aviv-Yafo ISRAEL Alexandria Jerusalem Amman
- Banghazi
Yellow Sea
Qingdao
Zhengzhou
CHINA
Line of Actual Control
AFGHANISTAN Islamabad
Esfahan ¯ ¸
Seoul SOUTH KOREA
Jinan
Lanzhou
Indian claim
NORTH
Sea of Japan
NORTH KOREA Pyongyang
Tianjin
Taiyuan
1972 Line of Control
Kabul
IRAQ
Damascus
Beirut
Mashhad
Tehran
Beijing
N) PA
MEXICO
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Tripoli
SYRIA
LEB.
CYPRUS
(GR.)
Havana
Mazatlán
Honolulu
Mediterranean Sea
Laayoune (El Aaiún)
THE BAHAMAS Nassau
Aleppo
Nicosia Crete
Mosul Kirkuk
Baotou
Kashi Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
Ashgabat
¯ Tabriz
Shenyang
Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
Tashkent
TURKMENISTAN
Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Sapporo
H - S
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
Matamoros
Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA
Baku
Adana
(IT.)
Rabat
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
Yerevan
Vladivostok
Ürümqi
(JA
Monterrey
Konya
UZBEKISTAN
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
TURKEY
Athens
MOROCCO
San Antonio
Gulf of Mexico
Palermo
Marrakech
Jacksonville
Miami
·Izmir
GREECE
(IT.)
Caspian Sea
Harbin Changchun
Almaty
Ankara
KURIL ISLANDS
MONGOLIA
Aral Sea
GEORGIA
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar
Lake Balkhash
PO
Houston
Sardinia
Rostov Sea of Azov
Tbilisi
Bursa
KAZAKHSTAN
Atyrau¯ (Atyrau)
Volgograd
·Istanbul
MACEDONIA
(U.S.)
Sakhalin
M
Ciudad Juárez 30
Algiers Oran
(SP.)
(U.K.)
New Orleans
Naples
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
Gibraltar(U.K.)
Casablanca
Tirana
Sicily
Melilla MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
BULGARIA
Skopje
ALB.
Astana
Kharkiv
Black Sea
Sofia
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Irkutsk Qaraghandy (Karaganda)
UKRAINE
SLOVAKIA
Sea of Okhotsk
Barnaul
Saratov
Kiev
L'viv
Lake Baikal
Novosibirsk
Omsk
Samara Voronezh
SER.& MONT.
Krasnoyarsk
Chelyabinsk
NA
San Diego Tijuana Mexicali
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)
SPAIN
Barcelona Valencia
Rome
Sevilla
OCEAN
Atlanta
Phoenix
VATICAN CITY
(FR.)
Madrid
Ceuta (SP.)
Los Angeles
Corsica
ANDORRA
PORTUGAL Lisbon
Minsk
Bratislava MOLDOVA Donets'k Budapest Chisinau HUNGARY Bern Ljubljana ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA Milan Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest SAN
ITALY Sarajevo
Yekaterinburg Kazan' Ufa
AUSTRIA
BOS. & HER.
60
Bering Sea
Perm'
BELARUS
Kraków
Prague
Turin MARINO
Marseille
Moscow
´ ´ Lodz
CZECH REP.
Nizhniy Novgorod
Yaroslavl'
Vienna
LIECH.
MONACO
Baltimore
STATES
Munich
SWITZ.
Lyon Bordeaux
(FRANCE)
Boston
Columbus
St. Louis San Francisco
Lille
BELGIUM LUX.
Paris
New York Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Denver
GERMANY Luxembourg
Brussels
Guernsey (U.K.) Jersey (U.K.)
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Cologne Berlin
FRANCE
Lake Ontario
Detroit
Chicago
Salt Lake City
OCEAN
Toronto
NETH.
POLAND Warsaw
Hamburg
Amsterdam
KINGDOM
Québec
Lake Huron Ottawa
Milwaukee
NORTH
Isle of Man (U.K.)
London Celtic Sea
Vilnius
RUSSIA
Manchester
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Superior
Seattle
Glasgow Belfast
Dublin IRELAND
Baltic Riga LAT. Sea LITH.
North DENMARK Sea Copenhagen
UNITED
Labrador Sea
Magadan St. Petersburg
Tallinn EST.
(U.K.)
Yakutsk
Helsinki
Rockall
CANADA TIA ALEU
Oslo
R U S S I A
FINLAND
Gulf of Bothnia
(DEN.)
Tórshavn
Hudson Bay
60
Faroe Islands
Reykjavík
Arkhangel'sk
-
Anchorage
Nuuk (Godthåb)
Anadyr'
White Sea
SWEDEN
-
Yellowknife
NORWAY
ICELAND
Denmark Strait
IS L A N D S AN )
Davis Strait
U
Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay)
AP
Great Bear Lake
Fairbanks
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
Ross Ice Shelf 150
120
90
60
30
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
April 2006 *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.
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
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