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Santiago SOUTH AFRICA Juan Fernández Islands URUGUAY CHILE Montevideo Buenos Aires Tristan da Cunha Amsterdam Is UK About our map Saint Paul Is NEW ZEALAND Gough FRANCE Showing a spherical planet on a 1569 - is still used by many UK flat piece of paper has troubled online mapping services, such cartographers for centuries. We as Google, but it does not Crozet Islands have used the Robinson represent the earth well on SOUTH AFRICA FRANCE projection, developed by paper. You would not be able to FRANCE Arthur Robinson in 1961 as a use this map to navigate across UK Heard Island South Georgia way of showing the entire the planet but it still represents Bouvet AUSTRALIA UK world at once . The Mercator one of the clearest ways of NORWAY South Sandwich Islands projection - first developed in illustrating the globe UK South Orkney Islands UK SOUTHERN OCEAN SOUTHERN OCEAN

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Republic of South Sudan Newest countries Biggest populations Smallest populations Most densely populated The richest countries The poorest countries Where refugees come from Where refugees go 9 July, 2011 People per square km Gross national income, $ per person, 2009 Gross national income, $ per person, 2009 Refugees and people in refugee-like situations, 2010

Kosovo (not fully recognised) Russian Federation China 1,347,565,000 Vatican City 900 Macao 19,213 Monaco $197,590 $150 Burundi Afghanistan 3,054,709 Pakistan 1,900,621 17 February 2008 25 December 1991 1,241,492,000 Monaco $136,630 Dem Rep Congo Iraq Iran Montenegro Kazakhstan India Tokelau 1,000 16,406 Liechtenstein $160 1,683,579 1,073,366 21 May 2006 16 December 1991 US 313,085,000 Niue 1,000 Singapore 7,125 Norway $84,640 $160 Liberia Somalia 770,154 Syria 1,005,472 Croatia 20 May 2002 8 October 1991 Population c.9.7m 242,326,000 Indonesia 3,000 Falkland Islands Hong Kong 6,721 Luxembourg $76,710 $290 Malawi 476,693 Dem Rep Congo 594,269 Germany Became a nation in November 1975. Armenia Population density c.15.7 Occupied by Indonesia until 1999 and administered by the UN until 2002 23 September 1991 196,655,000 Brazil 4,000 Saint Helena 3,105 Gibraltar Switzerland $65,430 $320 Eritrea 415,670 Burma 450,915 Jordan Area 619,745 sq km Tajikistan Maternal mortality ratio 2,037 deaths per Palau 9 September 1991 176,745,000 Pakistan 6,000 Montserrat 1,297 Malta Denmark $59,060 $330 Ethiopia 395,577 Colombia 402,905 Kenya 100,000 live births - highest in the world 1 October 1994 Macedonia 162,471,000 Nigeria 6,000 Saint Pierre & Miquelon 1,288 Bermuda Sweden $48,840 $340 Niger 387,288 Sudan 347,939 Chad Trained/skilled midwife attending births 5% Eritrea 8 September 1991 24 May 1993 Teenage pregnancies 204 per 1,000 females Uzbekistan 150,494,000 Bangladesh 10,000 Tuvalu 1,246 Bangladesh $48,460 Netherlands $340 Sierra Leone 338,698 Vietnam 300,986 China aged 15-19 Slovakia 1 September 1991 1 January 1993 HIV rate 7% 142,836,000 Russia 10,000 Nauru 1,041 Bahrain Austria $46,450 $360 Zimbabwe 222,460 Eritrea 264,574 US Bosnia and Herzegovina All of these countries are recognised by the UN SOURCES: UN POP DIVISION, WORLD BANK, UNHCR 1 March 1 1992 except for Kosovo, which is recognised by 76 out of 126,497,000 Japan 13,000 Wallis & Futuna Islands 1,031 Maldives US $46,360 $370 Guinea 184,602 China 238,150 UK GRAPHIC: JENNY RIDLEY, COPY & RESEARCH: SIMON ROGERS 192 UN members