Political Map of the World, June 1999 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
Happy ValleyGoose Bay
Edmonton
NDS
LA N IS
Labrador Sea
Lake Winnipeg
Dublin IRELAND Island of Newfoundland
Calgary Winnipeg
Vancouver
Minneapolis
Portland
Lake Michigan
NORTH St. Louis
UNITED
San Francisco
Bay of Biscay
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Halifax
Baltimore
STATES
Washington, D.C.
AZORES (PORT.)
ATLANTIC
Dallas
Bermuda
El Paso
30
Mexico
(U.S.)
ISLAS REVILLAGIGEDO (MEXICO)
Johnston Atoll
Veracruz
(U.K.)
Oaxaca
BELIZE Belmopan
DOMINICAN
(U.S.)
GUATEMALA HONDURAS Tegucigalpa Guatemala San Salvador NICARAGUA EL SALVADOR Managua
(U.S.)
(FRANCE)
COSTA RICA
Kingman Reef (U.S.)
Cali
Praia
(NETH.)
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
VENEZUELA
COLOMBIA
Georgetown Paramaribo GUYANA French Guiana (FRANCE) SURINAME Cayenne
Jarvis Island
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
(U.S.)
(ECUADOR)
SENEGAL
(BRAZIL)
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Equator
' Belem
Annobon
Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha
Manaus
Iquitos
ÎLES MARQUISES (Fr. Poly.)
PERU
Ascension
(Fr. Poly.)
Papeete
La Paz
Goiânia
BOLIVIA
Arequipa
Belo Horizonte
Martin Vaz Trindade
(FRANCE)
(BRAZIL)
PARAGUAY
(23˚27')
Adamstown
Isla San Felíx (CHILE)
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE)
Easter Island (CHILE)
Lake Nyasa
Moroni
San Miguel de Tucumán
Isla San Ambrosio (CHILE)
Santiago
ARCHIPIÉLAGO JUAN FERNÁNDEZ (CHILE) Concepción
I
Tarawa
Equator Yaren NAURU District
E
INDIAN
S
I
A
Arafura Sea
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Darwin Gulf of Carpentaria
(AUSTL.)
OCEAN Port Louis MAURITIUS
Port-Vila
American Samoa
Suva
Niue (N.Z.)
(U.S.)
New Caledonia (FRANCE)
Reunion (FRANCE)
Nuku'alofa
TONGA
Noumea
Tropic of Capricorn (23˚27')
Johannesburg
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
URUGUAY
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
OCEAN
Coral Sea Islands
FIJI
(AUSTL.)
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
PACIFIC
SAMOA Apia Mata-Utu (FRANCE) Pago Pago
VANUATU Re ef
Tokelau (N.Z.)
Wallis and Futuna
Coral Sea
Cairns
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
SOUTH
Funafuti
TUVALU
Honiara
Port Moresby
(FRANCE)
SaintDenis
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Surabaya
(AUSTL.)
K I R I B A T I
Bismarck Sea
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Banda Sea
Timor Sea
Howland Island (U.S.) Baker Island (U.S.) 0
Alice Springs
Pretoria
Bahía Blanca
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.) AUCKLAND ISLANDS (N.Z.)
ÎLES KERGUELEN (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Stanley
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (AUSTL.)
Bouvet Island (NORWAY)
Punta Arenas
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60
N Ujungpandang
(AUSTL.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Antananarivo
Europa Island
O Java Sea
Christmas Island
Tromelin Island
MADAGASCAR
D
Bandung
(FRANCE)
Mozambique Channel
Beira
(FRANCE)
AFRICA
La Plata
Majuro
Palikir
Celebes Sea
A
Gaborone
Córdoba Rosario
Diego Garcia
(administered by FRANCE, claimed by COMOROS)
MOZAMBIQUE
BOTSWANA
Curitiba
Pôrto Alegre
Mendoza
Koror
PALAU
Semarang
(FRANCE)
(U.K.)
CHILE
S
Jakarta
Glorioso Islands
Juan de Nova Island (FR.)
Bassas da India
St. Helena
30
MALAWI
NAMIBIA Walvis Bay
MARSHALL ISLANDS
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
BRUNEI
N
(U.K.)
Mayotte
Lilongwe
ZIMBABWE Windhoek
Cebu
SPRATLY ISLANDS
I
COMOROS
Harare
OCEAN
Hagåtña (Agana)
Ho Chi Minh City
Kuala Lumpur M A L A Y Singapore SINGAPORE
British Indian Ocean Territory
Dar es Salaam
Lusaka
São Paulo
Asunción
Pitcairn Islands (U.K.)
TANZANIA
Namibe
St. Helena
Rio de Janeiro
Antofagasta
ÎLES TUBUAI (Fr. Poly.)
(BRAZIL)
Victoria
SEYCHELLES
(St. Helena)
(U.S.)
Palembang
Mombasa
BURUNDI
Lake Tanganyika
ATLANTIC
Sucre
P o l y n e s i a Tropic of Capricorn
OF THE CONGO
Kinshasa
PHILIPPINES
Pontianak
Nairobi
Lake Victoria Bujumbura
ZAMBIA
SOUTH
Brasília
Santa Cruz
F r e n c h
KENYA
Saipan
Guam
Barrier
SOCIETY ISLANDS
Lago Titicaca
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU (Fr. Poly.)
Mogadishu
Kampala
(U.S.)
Davao
Medan
(U.S.)
Manila
Bandar Seri Begawan
MALDIVES UGANDA
Wake Atoll Northern Mariana Islands
Sea
South China Sea
NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA)
SRI LANKA
Male
Lubumbashi
Salvador
Colombo
Tropic of Cancer (23˚27')
Philippine
t Grea
Cook Islands (N.Z.)
SOMALIA
ANGOLA Cusco
Andaman Sea
(INDIA)
(JAPAN)
PARACEL ISLANDS
CAMBODIA
Phnom Penh Gulf of Thailand
(U.S.)
Marcus Island
Hainan Dao
VIETNAM
Bangkok
Midway Islands
Hong Kong Luzon Strait Macau S.A.R.
Hue
ANDAMAN ISLANDS (INDIA)
Chennai (Madras)
Laccadive Sea
Juba
RWANDA Kigali
Maceió
Lima
Bangalore
Vientiane
THAILAND
LAKSHADWEEP
Berbera
Luanda
(St. Helena)
BRAZIL
(YEMEN)
Rangoon
U
K
(PORT.)
Gulf of Tonkin
DEMOCRATIC
(Cabinda)
Recife
Trujillo
Arabian Sea
Socotra
Djibouti
Chiang Mai
Bengal
ETHIOPIA
REPUBLIC ANGOLA
Natal
DJIBOUTI Gulf of Aden
Addis Ababa
Brazzaville
Fortaleza
Bay of
YEMEN
Nanning
LAOS
- Hyderabad
Y
30
Taiwan
Hanoi
INDIA Pune
R
Guangzhou
BURMA
Sanaa
Asmara
Okinawa
Taipei
Dhaka
Calcutta Nagpur
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
São Luís
ECUADOR Guayaquil
Omdurman
Niamey
Penedos de São Pedro e São Paulo
Quito
- Ahmadabad
Mumbai (Bombay)
SUDAN
Port-of-Spain
Caracas
NIGER
Banjul BURKINA Bamako FASO THE GAMBIA Kano Ouagadougou Bissau N'Djamena GUINEA GUINEA-BISSAU BENIN NIGERIA Conakry Abuja CÔTE TOGO Freetown D'IVOIRE GHANA Ogbomoso SIERRA Yamoussoukro Ibadan CENTRAL LEONE Lagos Lomé AFRICAN REPUBLIC Accra Monrovia PortoAbidjan CAMEROON LIBERIA Novo Bangui Douala Malabo ' Yaoundé EQUATORIAL GUINEA Gulf of Guinea
BARBADOS
GRENADA
Bogotá
Isla de Malpelo
Equator
Maracaibo
Medellín
Isla del Coco (COSTA RICA)
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
0
Neth. Antilles
Panama PANAMA
Martinique (FR.) ST. LUCIA
ARABIA
Guiyang Kunming
¯ Karachi
MALI Tombouctou
Dakar
Jiddah Mecca
Thimphu
Kanpur
East China Sea
Nanchang
Changsha
BANGLADESH
Muscat
Port Sudan
CAPE VERDE
DOMINICA
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
Aruba (NETH.)
MAURITANIA
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.K.)
Caribbean Sea
Nouakchott
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
(U.S.) Montserrat
Barranquilla San José Cartagena Colon
Clipperton Island
British Virgin Islands (U.K.) Anguilla (U.K.)
Port-au- REPUBLIC Prince JAMAICA Kingston Navassa HAITI Santo Puerto Domingo Rico Island
Cayman Is.
Puebla
Acapulco
(U.K.)
CUBA
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Kathmandu
Chongqing
Hangzhou
O
Guadalajara
Cancún
Doha Abu Dhabi
QATAR Red Sea
Turks and Caicos Islands
Lucknow
Jaipur
OMAN
Lhasa BHUTAN
NEPAL
Shanghai
Wuhan
OT
Mérida
Manama Riyadh
Aswan
New Delhi
PAKISTAN
Persian Gulf
Yokohama
Fukuoka
)
León
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Western Sahara
BAHRAIN
Pusan Xi'an
Chengdu
Shiraz ¯
Tokyo Nagoya Osaka
Nanjing
Lahore
PACIFIC OCEAN
JAPAN
Seoul SOUTH KOREA
N PA
MEXICO
SAUDI
EGYPT
Havana
Mazatlán
Honolulu
LIBYA
KUWAIT
Kuwait
Yellow Sea
Qingdao
Zhengzhou
CHINA
Chinese line of control
Quetta
Al Jizah
ALGERIA
Jinan
Lanzhou
H - S
Matamoros
Al Basrah
JORDAN
Kandahar ¯
IRAN
NORTH KOREA Japan P'yongyang
Tianjin
Taiyuan
Kabul
Esfahan ¯ ¸
Baghdad
Tel Aviv-Yafo ISRAEL Alexandria Jerusalem Amman
- Banghazi
Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN
AFGHANISTAN Islamabad ¯ ¯ ¯
NORTH
Sea of
Beijing
Kashi
Indian claim
IRAQ
Damascus
Beirut
Sapporo
Shenyang Baotou
Mashhad
Tehran ¯
Vladivostok
Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN
Ashgabat
occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Changchun Ürümqi
(JA
Monterrey
SYRIA
LEB.
CYPRUS
(GR.)
Mosul Karkuk
Harbin
Tashkent
TURKMENISTAN
¯ Tabriz Aleppo
Cairo
Laayoune (El Aaiún)
THE BAHAMAS Nassau
Miami
Tripoli
Baku
Adana
Nicosia Crete
UZBEKISTAN
ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
TURKEY Konya
KURIL ISLANDS
MONGOLIA Almaty
Caspian Sea
Yerevan
Khabarovsk
Ulaanbaatar
Lake Balkhash
Aral Sea
GEORGIA
Ankara
·Izmir
Tunis MALTA Valletta TUNISIA
Marrakech
CANARY ISLANDS (SP.)
Rostov Sea of Azov
(IT.)
Rabat
KAZAKHSTAN
Atyrau¯ (Atyrau)
Volgograd
T'bilisi
Bursa
Athens
MOROCCO
San Antonio
Tropic of Cancer (23˚27')
Casablanca
Jacksonville
Gulf of Mexico
Palermo
Mediterranean Sea
(SP.)
MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORT.)
Kharkiv
·Istanbul
THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
(U.S.)
Sakhalin
PO
Houston
Oran
Astana
M
Ciudad Juárez
Algiers
Gibraltar(U.K.)
BULGARIA
GREECE
(IT.)
Sicily
Melilla
(U.K.)
New Orleans
Sardinia
BALEARIC ISLANDS (SP.)
Saratov
Black Sea
Skopje
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Irkutsk
NA
San Diego Tijuana Mexicali
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) (KIRIBATI)
SPAIN Sevilla
OCEAN
Atlanta
Phoenix
Podgorica ALB. Rome Tirana Naples
Barcelona Valencia
Barnaul
a
Sofia
Sea of Okhotsk
Qaraghandy (Karaganda)
UKRAINE
Serbia
Mont.
VATICAN CITY
(FR.)
Madrid
Ceuta (SP.)
Los Angeles
Corsica
ANDORRA
NORTH
ITALY Sarajevo
Lake Baikal
Novosibirsk
Omsk
Kiev
L'viv
SLOVAKIA
BOS. & HERZ.
Krasnoyarsk
Chelyabinsk
Samara Voronezh
Bratislava MOLDOVA Donets'k Budapest Chisinau ¸ HUNGARY Bern Ljubljana ROMANIA Odesa SLOVENIA Milan Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest SAN
MONACO
Marseille
Bilbao
PORTUGAL Lisbon
Minsk
AUSTRIA
Turin MARINO
Yekaterinburg Kazan'
BELARUS
Kraków
Prague
Perm'
Ufa
Vienna
LIECH.
SWITZ.
Lyon Bordeaux
(FRANCE)
New York Philadelphia
Columbus
Munich
Moscow
´ ´ Lodz
CZECH REP.
60
Bering Sea
)
PACIFIC
Montréal
Lake Erie
Indianapolis
Denver
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 TIA ALEU
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)
White Sea
IS L A N D S AN )
Davis Strait
(Frobisher Bay)
NORWAY
U
Iqaluit
AP
Great Bear Lake
Fairbanks
Y
U. S.
Sea
Cherskiy
Arctic Circle (66˚33') Nome
Wrangel Island
East Siberian Sea
(DENMARK)
(J
Sicily / AZORES
Drake Passage
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)
Macquarie Island (AUSTL.)
BOUNTY ISLANDS (N.Z.) ANTIPODES ISLANDS (N.Z.)
Campbell Island (N.Z.)
60
SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
Antarctic Circle (66˚33')
Antarctic Circle (66˚33')
June 1999
Amery Ice Shelf
Bellingshausen Sea
Weddell Sea
Amundsen Sea
Ross Sea
Ross Sea
Antarctica
Ronne Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf
b
Ross Ice Shelf
150
120
90
60
30
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
a
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
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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