Political Map of the World, October 2010

AUSTRALIA

Independent state

Bermuda

Dependency or area of special sovereignty

Island / island group

150

Capital

60

90

120

Ellesmere
Island

QUEEN ELIZABETH

Beaufort Sea

Resolute

Barrow

Victoria
Island

ARCTIC OCEAN

SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA

(NORWAY)

Barents Sea

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Kara Sea

NOVAYA
ZEMLYA

Svalbard

Greenland

Baffin
Bay

Pond Inlet

180

Longyearbyen

Greenland Sea

ISLANDS

Banks
Island

150

120

FRANZ JOSEF
LAND

ARCTIC OCEAN

Qaanaaq (Thule)

90

60

30

Alert

ARCTIC OCEAN

Laptev Sea
East Siberian Sea
Tiksi

Baffin
Island

Jan Mayen

Norwegian
Sea

(NORWAY)

Pevek
Noril'sk

Murmansk

Seattle

Lake
Michigan

Minneapolis

Portland

Lake
Huron
Ottawa
Toronto

Milwaukee

NORTH

Detroit

Chicago
Salt Lake City
Denver

PACIFIC

Saint
Louis

Kansas City

Sacramento
San Francisco

OCEAN

UNITED

Las Vegas
Los Angeles

Montral

Boston
Providence
Pittsburgh
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore

Porto

Charlotte

Miami

THE
Nassau
BAHAMAS

Cancn

JAMAICA
Kingston

BELIZE
Belmopan

Navassa
Island

HAITI

(U.S.)

GUATEMALA HONDURAS

(U.S.)

Guatemala City
San Salvador

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)

Valencia

Praia

Port-of-Spain
TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO

Ciudad
Guayana

Georgetown
Paramaribo
GUYANA
French Guiana
SURINAME Cayenne (FRANCE)

Bogot

COLOMBIA

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

(U.S.)

(ECUADOR)

(BRAZIL)

ECUADOR

Belm
So Lus

Manaus

Iquitos

SENEGAL

CHAD

Malabo

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

So Tom

REPUBLIC
Brazzaville
Pointe-Noire

(Fr. Poly.)

Sucre

F r e n c h

Goinia

Cochabamba

P o l y n e s i a

Santa
Cruz

Uberlndia
Campo
Grande

Tropic of Capricorn
LES TUBUAI

Adamstown

(Fr. Poly.)

PARAGUAY

(2327')

Asuncin

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)
Isla San Ambrosio
(CHILE)

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)
Easter Island
(CHILE)

Martin Vaz
(BRAZIL)

Trindade
(BRAZIL)

Valparaiso

Concepcin

Saint Helena, Ascension,

and Tristan da Cunha

SaintDenis

PALAU
Celebes Sea

SOUTH
AFRICA

Yaren
District

Banda Sea
Dili

Timor
Sea

Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

PAPUA
NEW GUINEA

Arafura
Sea

TIMOR-LESTE
Kupang

Gulf of
Carpentaria

(AUSTL.)

(AUSTL.)

(U.S.)

Suva
Nuku'Alofa

TONGA

Noumea

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Maputo

A U S T R A L I A

Mbabane

Maseru

SOUTH
PACIFIC

Norfolk
Island

Brisbane

(AUSTL.)

Durban
Perth

Adelaide

Great Australian
Bight

le Amsterdam

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Mar del Plata

Canberra

OCEAN

Lord Howe
Island

Newcastle
Sydney
Wollongong

30

KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

(AUSTL.)

Auckland
Melbourne

NEW
ZEALAND

Tasman Sea

Tasmania

Wellington

Hobart

(FRANCE)

Christchurch

Comodoro
Rivadavia

CHATHAM ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
LES CROZET
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)

Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)

Heard Island and

McDonald Islands
(AUSTL.)

Stanley
Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)

Scotia Sea
Drake
Passage

AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

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

Punta Arenas

Antarctic Circle (6633')

American
Samoa

FIJI

New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)

Gough Island

60

Port-Vila

MAURITIUS

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

OCEAN

VANUATU

Coral Sea
Islands

le Saint-Paul

PACIFIC

Tokelau
(N.Z.)

SAMOA
Apia
Mata-Utu
(FRANCE) Pago Pago

Coral
Sea

Port Louis

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

Puerto Montt

Funafuti

Wallis and
Futuna

Re
ef

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

SOUTH

K I R I B A T I

TUVALU

Honiara

Cairns

(FRANCE)

NAURU

SOLOMON
ISLANDS

Port
Moresby

Darwin

(AUSTL.)

Port
Elizabeth

Montevideo

(U.S.)

Jayapura

Banjarmasin

Cape Town

ARGENTINA

Howland Island
Baker Island (U.S.)

Pontianak Samarinda

LESOTHO SWAZILAND

(U.K.)

Majuro

Palikir

Alice Springs

Johannesburg

Buenos Aires

Baha Blanca

Melekeok

Reunion

Europa
Island

Pretoria

URUGUAY
La Plata

BOTSWANA

MADAGASCAR

Davao

OCEAN

Antananarivo

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Gaborone

Joinville

Rosario

Santiago
ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)

Windhoek

Crdoba
Mendoza

Bassas
da India
(FRANCE)

Santos

Prto
Alegre

CHILE

(FRANCE)

Mozambique
Channel

Beira

Bulawayo

Hagta

Tarawa

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

INDIAN

Tromelin Island

(U.S.)

Equator

(AUSTL.)

Juan de Nova
Island (FR.)

MOZAMBIQUE

ZIMBABWE

Walvis Bay

Florianpolis

30

MALAWI
Blantyre

Harare

NAMIBIA

(administered by FRANCE,
claimed by COMOROS)

PHILIPPINES

Christmas Island

(FRANCE)

Mayotte

Lilongwe

Lusaka

OCEAN

Moroni

Saipan
Guam

SINGAPORE

Glorioso Islands

COMOROS

ZAMBIA

Curitiba

San Miguel
de Tucumn

Lake
Nyasa

Ndola

Namibe

Diego
Garcia

SEYCHELLES

(FRANCE)

So Paulo

Antofagasta

Pitcairn Islands
(U.K.)

Belo
Horizonte

Rio de
Janeiro

Campinas

TANZANIA

(U.S.)

(U.S.)

TanjungkarangJava Sea
Makassar
Telukbetung
Jakarta
Bandung
Semarang
Surabaya
Malang
Denpasar

(U.K.)

Dar es Salaam

Wake Island

Sea

Bandar Seri
Begawan
BRUNEI

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Northern
Mariana
Islands

Cebu

(U.S.)

(JAPAN)

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

British Indian
Ocean Territory

Marcus Island

Manila

Palembang

Dodoma

Lake
Tanganyika

ATLANTIC
Vitria

(FRANCE)

Lake
Victoria

Midway
Islands

Philippine

Ho Chi Minh
City

Kuala
Lumpur
M A L A
Singapore

Medan

30

Luzon
Strait

South China
Sea

Padang

Victoria

Zamboanga

Pekanbaru

Mombasa

Yokohama

Taiwan
Kao-hsiung

VIETNAM

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Mogadishu

BURUNDI

Mbuji-Mayi

PARACEL
ISLANDS

Da Nang

Phnom
Penh
Gulf of
Thailand

Andaman
Sea

Colombo
SRI
LANKA

Taipei

saka
O

Hainan
Dao

CAMBODIA

Bujumbura

OF THE CONGO

ANGOLA

ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Madurai

Laccadive
Sea

Gulf of
Tonkin

Bangkok

Nairobi

Lubumbashi

Saint Helena

Chennai

LAOS

THAILAND

KENYA

Macei

SOUTH

Bengal

Okinawa

Fuzhou

Guangzhou
Nanning
Hong Kong
Zhanjiang Macau S.A.R.
S.A.R.
Haiphong

Chiang Vientiane
Mai

Rangoon

Coimbatore

Cochin

Hanoi

Tokyo

Nagoya
Hiroshima

Barrier

Niue
(N.Z.)

La Paz

Arequipa

ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU

(Fr. Poly.)

Papeete

(INDIA)

Luanda

Braslia

Bay of

Pusan

PACIFIC
OCEAN

JAPAN

t
Grea

SOCIETY
ISLANDS

BOLIVIA

Calicut

SOMALIA

Kampala

Kinshasa

ANGOLA

Nay Pyi
Taw

Male

RWANDA Kigali

Salvador

Lago
Titicaca

Hargeysa

Juba

DEMOCRATIC

(EQUA. GUI.)

Benguela

(N.Z.)

(YEMEN)

ETHIOPIA

Kisangani

REP. OF
THE
GABON
CONGO

Annobon

Bengaluru
(Bangalore)

Arabian
Sea LAKSHADWEEP

Socotra

Mandalay

Pune
Vishakhapatnam

Yellow
Sea

Xiamen

NORTH

Sea of
Japan

Seoul
SOUTH
KOREA

Shantou

BURMA

INDIA

MALDIVES

Libreville

Lima
Cook Islands

Addis
Ababa

UGANDA

Recife

Cusco

Nagpur

Vijayawada

Gulf of Aden

Guiyang

Jamshedpur
Khulna
Kolkata Chittagong

Indore
Surat

Yaound

(BRAZIL)

BRAZIL

DJIBOUTI
Djibouti

Gulf of Guinea

Ascension
Prto Velho

Aden

Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,

administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

Sapporo

Fukuoka
Nanjing
Nantong
Hefei
Shanghai
Wuhan
Hangzhou
Ningbo
East China
Nanchang
Changsha
Sea

Kunming

BANGLADESH
Dhaka

Ahmadabad Bhopal

Sanaa
Mekele

Chongqing

Patna

Karachi

YEMEN

Xi'an

Thimphu

Kanpur Lucknow

Hyderabad

OMAN

Asmara

SUDAN

Joo Pessoa

PERU

Jaipur

ARABIA

ERITREA

Kassala

Khartoum

Banjul
Bamako
FASO
THE GAMBIA
N'Djamena
Kano
Bissau
Ouagadougou
Nyala
GUINEA-BISSAU
GUINEA
BENIN
NIGERIA
Conakry
Abuja
CTE
TOGO
Freetown
D'IVOIRE GHANA
Ogbomoso
SIERRA
Ibadan
Yamoussoukro
CENTRAL
LEONE
Lagos
Lom
AFRICAN
REPUBLIC
Accra
Monrovia
PortoAbidjan
CAMEROON
Novo
LIBERIA
Bangui
Douala

Equator

NEPAL
Kathmandu

Agra

BAHRAIN Persian
OMAN
Gulf
Manama
Abu
Doha
Riyadh
Dhabi
Gulf of Oman
QATAR UNITED ARAB
Muscat
EMIRATES

Medina

Omdurman

(Cabinda)

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

PAKISTAN

Lhasa
BHUTAN

Dalian
Yantai

Zhengzhou

Chengdu

Ludhiana

New
Delhi

SAUDI

EGYPT

BURKINA Niamey

Natal
Trujillo

Zahedan

Lahore
Faisalabad
Multan
Quetta

Hyderabad

NIGER

Teresina

K I R I B A T I

z
Shira

CHINA

Line of
Actual
Control

MALI

ARQUIPLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Fortaleza

Kandahar

IRAN

KUWAIT
Kuwait

Al Jizah

1972
Line of Control

Peshawar

AFGHANISTAN Islamabad

Esfahan
Ahvaz

Kabul

Zibo
Jinan
Qingdao

Lanzhou

Indian
claim

Mumbai

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Guayaquil

IRAQ

Dushanbe
TAJIKISTAN

Herat

Vladivostok

NORTH KOREA
Pyongyang

Tianjin
Shijiazhuang
Taiyuan

Port Sudan

CAPE VERDE

Quito

Jarvis
Island

Banghazi

Aswan

PENEDOS DE
SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

Equator

Tripoli

Tombouctou

Dakar

Qom
Kermanshah

Beijing
Datong

Mashhad

Tehran

Arbil

Damascus
Baghdad
Tel Aviv-Yafo
ISRAEL
Alexandria
Jerusalem Amman
Al Basrah
JORDAN
Cairo

LIBYA

Cali

Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)
(KIRIBATI)

Aleppo

CYPRUS Beirut
LEBANON

(GR.)

ALGERIA

Nouakchott

BARBADOS

VENEZUELA

Medelln
Isla de
Malpelo
(COLOMBIA)

Caracas

Maracaibo

Ccuta

PANAMA

Isla del Coco

(COSTA RICA)

Mosul

Jilin

Shenyang
Baotou

Kashi

TURKMENISTAN
Ashgabat

Tabriz

Gaziantep

SYRIA

MAURITANIA

GRENADA

Barranquilla
Cartagena

RICA

ST. VINCENT AND

THE GRENADINES
Curacao (NETH.)

(NETH.)

San Jos
Coln Panama
COSTA
City

(FRANCE)

EY

Changchun

rmqi

KYRGYZSTAN

UZBEKISTAN

Baku

Yerevan

Harbin

Bishkek

Tashkent

AZERBAIJAN

ARMENIA

KURIL
ISLANDS

MONGOLIA

Almaty
Shymkent

S
ND
ISLA

Khabarovsk

Ulaanbaatar
Lake Balkhash

Aral
Sea

Caspian
Sea

Tbilisi

Red Jiddah
Sea Mecca

DOMINICA
Martinique (FR.)
ST. LUCIA

(U.K.)

Aruba

NICARAGUA

Managua

Clipperton Island

British
Virgin Virgin Islands
Islands
(U.K.)
(U.S.)
DOMINICAN
Anguilla (U.K.)
REPUBLIC
Saint-Martin (FR.)
San
Sint Maarten (NETH.)
Santiago Juan
Saint Barthelemy (FR.)
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
Santo Puerto
ANTIGUA
AND BARBUDA
Domingo Rico
Guadeloupe (FR.)
(U.S.)

Caribbean Sea

Tegucigalpa

EL SALVADOR

Mediterranean Sea

Fs

Western
Sahara

Montserrat

Atyra

GEORGIA

(U.K.)

Port-auPrince

KAZAKHSTAN
Astrakhan'

Turks and
Caicos Islands

(U.K.)

Oaxaca

Volgograd
Rostov

Aqta
(Aktau)

Nicosia
Crete

AL
EUT
IAN

Qaraghandy
(Karaganda)

UKRAINE

Valletta

Laayoune

Cayman Is.

Acapulco

Constantine

(SP.)

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

CUBA

Puebla

Tunis
TUNISIA

MALTA

Sakhalin

TO

Toluca
ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

Mrida

Mexico
City

U.S.

HUNGARY

U.S.

PetropavlovskKamchatskiy

Chita

Astana

Guadalajara

Len

SLOVENIA

Bern

MOROCCO

Havana

San Luis
Potos

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

AUSTRIA

Irkutsk

Orenburg

Saratov

HO
- S
P O PAN)
JA

MEXICO

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

LIECH.

Sea of
Okhotsk

Barnaul

Kyiv

Kharkiv
Donets'k
MOLDOVA
Chisinau
Odesa

SLOVAKIA

Bratislava
Budapest

Marrakech

Orlando

Gulf of Mexico

CZECH REP.

Vienna

L'viv

Voronezh

Lake
Baikal

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Matamoros

Munich

Ufa

Krasnoyarsk

NA

Monterrey
Torren

Oran

Melilla

Casablanca

Jacksonville

Tampa

Gibraltar (U.K.)

Ceuta (SP.)

(U.K.)

San
Antonio

Chihuahua

Paris

Krakw

Tomsk

Yekaterinburg
Chelyabinsk

Samara

Homyel

POLAND

Prague

Bering Sea

Tyumen'

Izhevsk
Kazan'

Ul'yanovsk

Minsk

Ldz

GERMANY

Nizhniy
Novgorod

BELARUS

Warsaw
.

Cologne

BELGIUM LUX. Frankfurt

Luxembourg

Moscow

Ljubljana
Sea of
ROMANIA
Lyon SWITZ.
Azov
Milan
Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Bucharest
Bordeaux
Turin
SAN
BOS. &
MARINO
HER.
SERBIA
Toulouse
MONACO Genoa
Sarajevo
Black Sea
Pristina
Sofia
ITALY
Marseille
Bilbao
Podgorica KOS.
Corsica
BULGARIA
VATICAN
ANDORRA
(FR.)
MONT.
CITY
Skopje
Rome
Tirana
Istanbul
MACEDONIA
Barcelona
Madrid
ALB.
Naples
Ankara
Bursa
Sardinia
SPAIN Valencia BALEARIC
(IT.)
GREECE
.
T
URK
ISLANDS
I
zmir
Palermo
(SP.)
Konya
Sevilla
Athens
Adana
Sicily
Algiers
Mlaga
(IT.)

Rabat

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

OCEAN

Bermuda

New
Houston Orleans

Austin

Lisbon

AZORES
(PORT.)

ATLANTIC

Dallas
Ciudad
Juarez

PORTUGAL

NORTH

Norfolk

El Paso

Honolulu

(FRANCE)

Halifax

Atlanta

Phoenix

NETH.
Brussels
Lille

Yaroslavl'

LAT.

60

Perm'

Bay of
Biscay

Buffalo

STATES
Nashville

30

St. Pierre
and Miquelon

Lake Ontario

Berlin

Amsterdam

FRANCE

Washington, D.C.

Oklahoma City

San Diego
Tijuana Mexicali

Johnston Atoll

Qubec

Lake Erie

Cleveland
Indianapolis
Cincinnati

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

Gulf of
St. Lawrence

EST.

Hamburg

KINGDOM
London

Celtic
Sea

Vancouver

Lake
Superior

(U.K.)

Leeds

Birmingham

Island of
Newfoundland

Winnipeg

Isle of
Man

Magadan

Saint Petersburg

LITH.
Vilnius

RUSSIA

Yakutsk

Dublin
IRELAND

Provideniya

Lake
Winnipeg

Saskatoon

UNITED

Belfast

Happy ValleyGoose Bay

DENMARK
Copenhagen

R U S S I A

Lake
Onega

IS
L A N
D S
)

Edmonton

North
Sea

Lake
Ladoga

Helsinki

Baltic

Sea Riga

(U.K.)

Glasgow

FINLAND

Tallinn

Stockholm

Rockall

Labrador
Sea

Kuujjuaq

Anadyr'
Arkhangel'sk

Gulf
of
Bothnia

(DEN.)

Oslo

CANADA
Calgary

Reykjavk

AN

White Sea

SWEDEN

Faroe
Islands

AP

TIAN

DS
SLAN

NORWAY

ICELAND

Hudson
Bay

Fort McMurray
Prince
George

Davis
Strait

Denmark
Strait

Trshavn

Churchill

Juneau

(Godthb)

60

ALEU

Iqaluit

Great
Slave Lake

Whitehorse

Gulf of Alaska

Nuuk

Great
Bear Lake

Fairbanks

Anchorage

Sea

Arctic Circle (6633')

U. S.

Chukchi

Cherskiy

Arctic Circle (6633')

Nome

Wrangel
Island

(DENMARK)

(J

Scale 1:35,000,000
Robinson Projection
standard parallels 38N and 38S

30

Sicily / AZORES

Macquarie
Island

South Georgia and

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.)

(AUSTL.)

60
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Antarctic Circle (6633')

Amery Ice
Shelf

Bellingshausen Sea

Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea
Ross Sea

Ronne Ice Shelf

Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative countries 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 countries.

Ross
Ice Shelf
150

120

90

Ross Sea

Antarctica

60

30

30

Ross Ice Shelf

October 2010
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

60

90

120

150

180

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