Political Map of the World, November 2004
AUSTRALIA Independent state
Bermuda Dependency or area of special sovereignty
Sicily / AZORES Island / island group
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Capital FRANZ JOSEF
ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN
LAND
SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA
Scale 1:35,000,000 Ellesmere
Qaanaaq
Island (Thule)
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Robinson Projection Longyearbyen
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Svalbard NOVAYA Kara Sea Laptev Sea
Greenland Sea
standard parallels 38ÚN and 38ÚS ISLANDS (NORWAY) ZEMLYA
Banks
Kaujuitoq
Island Barents Sea
Baffin
(Resolute)
Beaufort Sea Greenland Wrangel
East Siberian Sea
Island
(DENMARK)
Barrow Bay
Victoria
Tiksi
Norwegian Chukchi
Island Baffin Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)
Island Noril'sk Sea
Sea Murmansk Cherskiy
Arctic Circle (66Ú33') Arctic Circle (66Ú33')
NORWAY
Great White Sea Anadyr'
Fairbanks
Nome Iqaluit
Bear Lake Denmark ICELAND
U. S.
(Frobisher Bay) Davis SWEDEN
Arkhangel'sk
Faroe
Nuuk (Godthåb) Strait
Yellowknife Reykjavík
Strait Islands
Gulf FINLAND
(DEN.)
Tórshavn of R U S S I A Yakutsk
Anchorage Great
Bothnia
Whitehorse Slave Lake Bergen Helsinki
Oslo
Magadan
60 Hudson 60
Stockholm St. Petersburg
Bay Tallinn
Gulf of Alaska Rockall EST.
Churchill Perm' Bering Sea
Juneau (U.K.)
Baltic Yaroslavl' Nizhniy
UNITED North Riga Yekaterinburg
Sea LAT. Novgorod Krasnoyarsk
Labrador Glasgow DENMARK Moscow Kazan'
C A N A D A LITH. Chelyabinsk Novosibirsk Lake Sea of
Sea
Copenhagen RUSSIA Omsk
Sea Belfast Vilnius Ufa
Baikal
Happy Valley- Minsk
Edmonton Manchester Okhotsk
Isle of Barnaul
Goose Bay Dublin Samara ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Man (U.K.)
BELARUS
Lake Amsterdam Hamburg POLAND
Irkutsk Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (U.S.)
IRELAND Warsaw
Winnipeg KINGDOM NETH. Voronezh
Cologne Berlin Saratov Astana
Sakhalin
Calgary Island of London Lódz

Brussels GERMANY Kiev Qaraghandy
Kraków
Winnipeg Newfoundland Prague L'viv (Karaganda)
Celtic Lille
Vancouver Guernsey(U.K.) Luxembourg
Sea BELGIUM CZECH REP. U K R A I N E Kharkiv
Jersey(U.K.)
LUX. SLOVAKIA Khabarovsk
Gulf of Munich
Paris Bratislava
Lake St. Lawrence LIECH. Vienna MOLDOVA Volgograd Atyrak
K A Z A K H S T A N Ulaanbaatar KURIL
Donets'k
SWITZ. AUSTRIA (Atyrau)
Seattle Superior Lake Québec Budapest Chisinau Lake Balkhash ISLANDS
FRANCE
Bern HUNGARY Rostov
Huron Ljubljana
ROMANIA
Ottawa Montréal SLOVENIA Odesa Aral M O N G O L I A Harbin
Sea of
St. Pierre Bay of CROATIA
Lyon Milan Belgrade
Minneapolis Lake
Portland and Miquelon Biscay Zagreb Bucharest Azov Sea
SAN
Michigan Bordeaux Turin BOS. & HER. Changchun Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,
Toronto Halifax (FRANCE) MARINO
MONACO SER.&
Lake Ontario Almaty Vladivostok
Milwaukee Black Sea Ürümqi Sapporo administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN
Marseille
Detroit Boston Bilbao ITALY Sarajevo MONT. Sofia
GEORGIA
Corsica BULGARIA Caspian UZBEKISTAN
N O R T H ANDORRA VATICAN Bishkek Shenyang
Lake Erie (FR.) · Tbilisi
CITY
Chicago
Salt Lake City New York Rome ALB. Skopje Istanbul Sea
KYRGYZSTAN
Cleveland Madrid Barcelona MACEDONIA AZERBAIJAN Baotou N O R T H
Beijing Sea of
Philadelphia Naples Tirana ARMENIA
NORTH KOREA
Denver Indianapolis PORTUGAL Bursa Ankara Tashkent
Valencia
P A C I F I C Columbus N O R T H SPAIN BALEARIC Sardinia Yerevan Baku TURKMENISTAN Japan
St. Louis Baltimore Lisbon ISLANDS GREECE · Dushanbe Tianjin
(IT.) Kashi Pyongyang
Izmir T U R K E Y
(SP.) Palermo Ashgabat Taiyuan P A C I F I C
Washington, D.C. TAJIKISTAN
San Francisco AZORES Sevilla Tabr%2Å‚z Seoul
Athens Konya
U N I T E D S T A T E S (PORT.) Sicily Adana JAPAN
Jinan
Indian Lanzhou
O C E A N A T L A N T I C (IT.) Mosul SOUTH
MALTA
Gibraltar(U.K.) Algiers Tunis Aleppo Yellow Tokyo
Qingdao
Ceuta (SP.) Valletta Nicosia Kirkuk Mashhad 1972 claim KOREA
Nagoya O C E A N
Oran Tehran Line of Control Zhengzhou Sea Pusan - Yokohama
Melilla TUNISIA SYRIA Kabul
Crete
Los Angeles (SP.) CYPRUS LEB. Osaka
MADEIRA
Atlanta Mediterranean Sea (GR.) IRAQ Line of C H I N A
Phoenix O C E A N Casablanca Beirut Actual
Damascus Xi'an
ISLANDS Rabat AFGHANISTAN Fukuoka
San Diego Dallas E_
fah

n Islamabad Control
Bermuda (PORT.)
Tijuana El Paso (U.K.) Marrakech Tel Aviv-Yafo Baghdad Nanjing
Kandah

r
Tripoli - - Alexandria ISRAEL
Mexicali Banghazi Amman Chengdu
I R A N Lahore Shanghai
Jerusalem
New Al Basrah Wuhan
Ciudad Juárez Jacksonville MOROCCO JORDAN Hangzhou
Quetta
Houston Orleans Cairo
30 30
CANARY ISLANDS - KUWAIT Shir

z New Lhasa East China
Al Jizah
Chongqing
San Antonio (SP.) Nanchang
Kuwait
A L G E R I A Delhi NEPAL BHUTAN Changsha Sea
PAKISTAN
Midway
Laayoune L I B Y A Persian Lucknow Kathmandu Thimphu Guiyang Okinawa
THE (El Aaiśn) SAUDI BAHRAIN Gulf Jaipur -
Islands
OMAN
Miami E G Y P T Kanpur
Gulf of Mexico Manama Abu (U.S.)
BAHAMAS Western Taipei
Monterrey Matamoros Doha Marcus Island
Kunming
- Riyadh Dhabi
Nassau Sahara Aswan Kar

chi BANGLADESH (JAPAN)
Tropic of Cancer (23Ú27') QATAR Tropic of Cancer (23Ú27')
Mazatlán Havana UNITED ARAB
Muscat Guangzhou
Turks and Red EMIRATES
- - Kolkata Dhaka
Ahmadabad Taiwan
Caicos Islands ARABIA Nanning
MEXICO Sea Hong Kong
Cancśn (U.K.) Jiddah - (Calcutta)
Honolulu Nagpur Hanoi
León Mérida CUBA BURMA Macau Luzon Strait
S.A.R.
British Virgin Mecca OMAN
HAWAIIAN Islands S.A.R.
Guadalajara DOMINICAN
(U.K.) LAOS Philippine Wake Island
Veracruz Cayman Is. Port-au- REPUBLIC Port Sudan (U.S.)
ISLANDS Anguilla (U.K.) I N D I A Gulf of
Mexico (U.K.) MAURITANIA Tonkin
Prince Pune Vientiane Hainan
Mumbai Northern
(U.S.) Puebla ST. KITTS AND NEVIS Nouakchott Chiang Dao
ISLAS JAMAICA - -
M A L I (Bombay) Hyderabad Sea Mariana
BELIZE HAITI Santo Mai
REVILLAGIGEDO Kingston Puerto ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Rangoon
Navassa
Oaxaca Domingo Islands
Belmopan Island Rico
(MEXICO) Acapulco Guadeloupe (FR.) Hue PARACEL
Johnston Atoll (U.S.) Tombouctou Omdurman Bay of
(U.S.)
(U.S.) N I G E R ERITREA YEMEN ISLANDS
CAPE VERDE
(U.S.) GUATEMALA HONDURAS Montserrat DOMINICA THAILAND Saipan
Sanaa
Tegucigalpa (U.K.) Dakar CHAD Khartoum Asmara VIETNAM Manila
Martinique (FR.) Bengal
SENEGAL Bangkok
Guatemala Caribbean Sea ST. LUCIA Praia Niamey Guam
ST. VINCENT AND Banjul BURKINA ANDAMAN (U.S.)
Arabian Bangalore South China
San Salvador Aruba THE GRENADINES BARBADOS FASO ISLANDS CAMBODIA HagåtÅ„a
Bamako Aden PHILIPPINES
NICARAGUA (NETH.)
EL SALVADOR Neth. Antilles THE GAMBIA Gulf of Aden Chennai Sea
(NETH.) Kano S U D A N DJIBOUTI (INDIA)
Managua GRENADA Socotra (Madras)
Bissau Ouagadougou N'Djamena
Barranquilla Djibouti (YEMEN) Sea
Maracaibo Port-of-Spain Phnom Penh Ho Chi Minh City
Cartagena GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA Cebu MARSHALL
San José TRINIDAD AND BENIN LAKSHADWEEP
Clipperton Island Colon Caracas NIGERIA Addis Andaman FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
Berbera Gulf of
TOBAGO Conakry Ababa (INDIA) Sea ISLANDS
(FRANCE) COSTA CÔTE TOGO
Abuja Thailand SPRATLY
Panama Freetown ISLANDS
Ogbomoso
RICA D'IVOIRE GHANA
PANAMA SIERRA Ibadan ETHIOPIA Laccadive Davao Koror Majuro
Georgetown Yamoussoukro Colombo Palikir
VENEZUELA CENTRAL NICOBAR
Kingman Reef (U.S.) LEONE Lomé Lagos ISLANDS
Sea
Isla del Coco Medellín Paramaribo Bandar Seri
AFRICAN REPUBLIC SRI
(COSTA RICA) (INDIA)
Palmyra Atoll (U.S.) GUYANA Monrovia Accra Porto- CAMEROON Juba SOMALIA LANKA
French Guiana Abidjan Begawan PALAU
LIBERIA Novo
Isla de Bogotá (FRANCE) Bangui BRUNEI
Douala Male Kuala
Malpelo SURINAME Cayenne
Malabo Medan Lumpur
COLOMBIA Celebes Sea
EQUATORIAL GUINEA Yaoundé MALDIVES
Cali M A L A Y S I A
PENEDOS DE Gulf of Guinea
Kiritimati UGANDA
Tarawa
SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO Mogadishu Singapore Howland Island (U.S.)
(Christmas Island) SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
(BRAZIL) Kisangani Kampala
Equator
(KIRIBATI) Quito Equator Libreville KENYA SINGAPORE Equator
Sćo Tome REP. OF Baker Island(U.S.)
0 0
Pontianak
THE DEMOCRATIC
Jarvis GABON Yaren NAURU
GALAPAGOS
ECUADOR
Island Annobon CONGO RWANDA Kigali District
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE Nairobi
ISLANDS Belém Sćo Luís Lake Palembang
(U.S.) Guayaquil FERNANDO DE NORONHA (EQUA. GUI.) K I R I B A T I
(ECUADOR) Manaus REPUBLIC Victoria
Iquitos (BRAZIL)
Brazzaville Bujumbura
Fortaleza I N D O N E S I A
Mombasa Victoria
Teresina OF THE CONGO BURUNDI British Indian Makassar
Natal ANGOLA Kinshasa PAPUA
Ocean Territory Java Sea
Jakarta
(Cabinda) Lake Banda Sea
Dodoma
(U.K.)
Dar es Salaam
Tanganyika Semarang NEW GUINEA SOLOMON
TANZANIA
K I R I B A T I Diego Bandung Surabaya ISLANDS
Recife
ÎLES MARQUISES Trujillo Ascension SEYCHELLES Dili
Garcia
Luanda Funafuti
(Fr. Poly.) (St. Helena)
EAST Arafura Tokelau
PERU TUVALU
Honiara
Maceió Lake TIMOR
B R A Z I L Sea Port (N.Z.)
Lubumbashi
Nyasa Christmas Island Moresby
Moroni Glorioso Islands
Timor
(FRANCE) (AUSTL.)
Cocos Sea
Lima ANGOLA COMOROS SAMOA
(Keeling) Islands Ashmore and Darwin Wallis and
Cusco Mayotte Apia
Salvador Lilongwe (administered by FRANCE, (AUSTL.) Cartier Islands Futuna
Gulf of Coral Mata-Utu
ZAMBIA claimed by COMOROS)
Cook Islands I N D I A N (AUSTL.)
Lago Carpentaria (FRANCE)
S O U T H Namibe MALAWI Pago Pago
St. Helena Tromelin Island
(N.Z.) Titicaca
Brasília
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU La Paz (St. Helena) (FRANCE) Sea
American
Lusaka Juan de Nova
Goiânia FIJI
(Fr. Poly.) Arequipa Island (FR.) Samoa
VANUATU
Papeete BOLIVIA Cairns (U.S.)
SOCIETY A T L A N T I C
O C E A N
MOZAMBIQUE Coral Sea
Santa Cruz Harare Antananarivo Port-Vila Niue
ISLANDS Islands Suva (N.Z.)
Belo
Mozambique Port
ZIMBABWE Beira (AUSTL.)
(Fr. Poly.) Sucre Horizonte Martin Vaz Saint- Louis
Channel
F r e n c h P o l y n e s i a (BRAZIL)
O C E A N NAMIBIA Denis New
Trindade Bassas Nuku'alofa
MAURITIUS
(BRAZIL) da India MADAGASCAR Caledonia
(FRANCE)
(FRANCE) Reunion
Windhoek (FRANCE) TONGA
PARAGUAY Rio de Janeiro BOTSWANA (FRANCE)
Walvis Bay Europa Island Noumea
Tropic of Capricorn (23Ú27') Tropic of Capricorn (23Ú27')
Sćo Paulo (FRANCE)
Antofagasta
ÎLES TUBUAI Gaborone Alice Springs
(Fr. Poly.) Asunción Curitiba
Pitcairn Islands Pretoria
Adamstown Maputo
Isla San Felíx San Miguel
(U.K.)
Isla Sala y Gómez (CHILE) de Tucumán St. Helena
Isla San Ambrosio Johannesburg Mbabane A U S T R A L I A
(CHILE) S O U T H
Easter Island (CHILE) Norfolk
(U.K.) SWAZILAND Brisbane
LESOTHO
(CHILE) Island
Pôrto (AUSTL.) P A C I F I C
Alegre SOUTH Maseru
30 30
Durban
KERMADEC
Córdoba AFRICA
O C E A N
CHILE Perth ISLANDS
Lord Howe
(N.Z.)
Mendoza Rosario Island
URUGUAY (AUSTL.)
Santiago
Cape
ARCHIPIÉLAGO Buenos Aires Port Elizabeth Adelaide Sydney
Town Canberra
JUAN FERNÁNDEZ La Plata Montevideo
(CHILE)
Concepción ARGENTINA
Île Amsterdam Great Australian Auckland
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Melbourne
Bahía Blanca Bight NEW
TRISTAN DA CUNHA (St. Helena)
Île Saint-Paul
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) ZEALAND
Tasman Sea
Gough Island
S O U T H Puerto Montt
(St. Helena) Tasmania
Wellington
Hobart
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
P A C I F I C Christchurch
(FRANCE)
Comodoro
CHATHAM ISLANDS
Rivadavia
(N.Z.)
O C E A N
ÎLES CROZET
PRINCE EDWARD
BOUNTY ISLANDS
Falkland Islands (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) SNARES ISLANDS
ISLANDS
(Islas Malvinas) (N.Z.) (N.Z.)
(SOUTH AFRICA)
(administered by U.K., AUCKLAND ANTIPODES ISLANDS
ÎLES KERGUELEN
ISLANDS
claimed by ARGENTINA) (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) (N.Z.)
(N.Z.)
Stanley Heard Island and
Campbell
Bouvet Island McDonald Islands
Punta Arenas Island
(NORWAY)
(AUSTL.) (N.Z.)
Macquarie
Island
South Georgia and the
Scotia Sea
(AUSTL.)
South Sandwich Islands
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)
Drake
60 60
Passage
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS
S O U T H E R N O C E A N
S O U T H E R N O C E A N S O U T H E R N O C E A N
Antarctic Circle (66Ú33') Antarctic Circle (66Ú33')
Amery Ice
Shelf
Bellingshausen Sea
Weddell Sea
Amundsen Sea
November 2004
Ross Sea
Ross Sea
Ronne Ice Shelf * *
Twenty of 27 Antarctic consultative nations
A n t a r c t i c a
have made no claims to Antarctic territory
Ross
Ross Ice Shelf (although Russia and the United States have
Ice Shelf
reserved the right to do so) and they do not
recognize the claims of the other nations.
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