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Political Map of the World, April 2006 Political Map of the World, April 2006 AUSTRALIA Independent state Bermuda Dependency or area of special sovereignty AZORES Sicily / Island / island group 150 120 90 60 30 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 Capital ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN FRANZ JOSEF ARCTIC OCEAN LAND SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA Scale 1:35,000,000 Ellesmere Qaanaaq Island QUEEN ELIZABETH (Thule) Longyearbyen Robinson Projection NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS NOVAYA Kara Sea standard parallels 38°N and 38°S Greenland Sea Svalbard Laptev Sea Banks ISLANDS (NORWAY) ZEMLYA Island Kaujuitoq Baffin Barents Sea Beaufort Sea (Resolute) Greenland East Siberian Sea Wrangel Island Barrow Bay (DENMARK) Victoria Tiksi Island Baffin Jan Mayen Chukchi (NORWAY) Norwegian Island Noril'sk Sea Sea Murmansk Cherskiy Arctic Circle (66°33') Arctic Circle (66°33') NORWAY White Sea Fairbanks Great Anadyr' Nome Bear Lake Iqaluit Denmark ICELAND U. S. (Frobisher Bay) SWEDEN Davis Nuuk (Godthåb) Faroe Arkhangel'sk Yellowknife Strait Reykjavík Islands Strait Gulf FINLAND Yakutsk Anchorage Tórshavn (DEN.) of R U S S I A Great Bothnia Whitehorse Slave Lake Bergen Oslo Helsinki 60 Magadan 60 Hudson Stockholm St. Petersburg Tallinn Gulf of Alaska Bay Rockall EST. Perm' Juneau Churchill (U.K.) Bering Sea Baltic Nizhniy Riga Yaroslavl' Yekaterinburg UNITED North Sea LAT. Novgorod Krasnoyarsk Labrador Glasgow DENMARK Moscow Kazan' C A N A D A Sea LITH. Chelyabinsk Novosibirsk Belfast Copenhagen RUSSIA Vilnius Ufa Omsk Lake Sea of Sea Minsk Baikal Edmonton Happy Valley- Manchester Okhotsk Goose Bay Dublin Isle of Samara Barnaul ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Man (U.K.) Amsterdam Hamburg POLAND BELARUS Lake IRELAND Warsaw Irkutsk Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (U.S.) Winnipeg KINGDOM NETH. Berlin Voronezh Saratov Astana ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Calgary Cologne Lodz´ ´ Sakhalin Island of London Qaraghandy Brussels GERMANY Kraków Kiev Winnipeg Newfoundland Celtic Lille Prague L'viv (Karaganda) Guernsey(U.K.) Luxembourg Vancouver Sea BELGIUM CZECH REP. U K R A I N E Kharkiv Jersey (U.K.) SLOVAKIA Khabarovsk Gulf of LUX. Munich Paris Vienna Bratislava MOLDOVA Volgograd Atyrau¯ K A Z A K H S T A N Ulaanbaatar KURIL Lake St. Lawrence LIECH. Donets'k Seattle Superior Lake Québec FRANCE SWITZ. AUSTRIA Budapest Chisinau (Atyrau) Lake Balkhash ISLANDS Huron Bern Ljubljana HUNGARY Rostov Montréal SLOVENIA ROMANIA Odesa M O N G O L I A Harbin Ottawa St. Pierre Bay of Sea of Aral Minneapolis Lake Lyon Milan CROATIA Belgrade Azov Portland and Miquelon Biscay SAN Zagreb Bucharest Sea Michigan Bordeaux Turin BOS. & HER. Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, Toronto Halifax (FRANCE) MONACO MARINO SER.& Changchun Lake Ontario Almaty Vladivostok Milwaukee Sarajevo MONT. Sofia Black Sea Ürümqi Sapporo administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN Detroit Boston Bilbao Marseille ITALY GEORGIA Corsica BULGARIA Caspian UZBEKISTAN Shenyang N O R T H Lake Erie ANDORRA (FR.) VATICAN · Tbilisi Bishkek Chicago CITY Rome ALB. Skopje Istanbul Sea Salt Lake City Cleveland New York MACEDONIA KYRGYZSTAN Baotou Madrid Barcelona Naples Tirana ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN Beijing Sea of N O R T H Denver Indianapolis Philadelphia PORTUGAL Valencia Bursa Ankara Tashkent NORTH KOREA Columbus SPAIN BALEARIC Sardinia Yerevan Baku TURKMENISTAN P A C I F I C St. Louis N O R T H Lisbon (IT.) Kashi Pyongyang Japan Baltimore ISLANDS GREECE ·Izmir T U R K E Y Dushanbe Tianjin (SP.) Palermo Ashgabat Taiyuan Washington, D.C. AZORES TAJIKISTAN P A C I F I C San Francisco Sevilla Athens Konya Adana Tabriz ¯ Seoul JAPAN U N I T E D S T A T E S (PORT.) Sicily Jinan SOUTH (IT.) Mosul Indian Lanzhou O C E A N A T L A N T I C Gibraltar(U.K.) Algiers MALTA Aleppo Tokyo Tunis 1972 claim Yellow KOREA Ceuta (SP.) Valletta Nicosia Kirkuk Mashhad Qingdao Nagoya Oran Tehran Line of Control Zhengzhou Sea Pusan - O C E A N Melilla TUNISIA Crete SYRIA Kabul Osaka Yokohama Los Angeles MADEIRA (SP.) CYPRUS LEB. Phoenix Atlanta Casablanca Mediterranean Sea (GR.) Damascus IRAQ Line of C H I N A Xi'an O C E A N ISLANDS Rabat Beirut AFGHANISTAN Actual Fukuoka San Diego Dallas Bermuda (PORT.) Esfahan ¸ ¯ Islamabad Control Tijuana El Paso (U.K.) Marrakech Tel Aviv-Yafo Baghdad Nanjing N A Kandahar ¯ Tripoli - - Alexandria ISRAEL Lahore Mexicali Banghazi Amman I R A N Chengdu Shanghai Jerusalem M New Wuhan S Ciudad Juárez Jacksonville Al Basrah Quetta MOROCCO JORDAN Hangzhou P Houston Orleans Cairo D 30 O - 30 CANARY ISLANDS (JAPAN) - KUWAIT Shiraz ¯ New Lhasa N Al Jizah East China (SP.) Chongqing - San Antonio Kuwait BHUTAN Nanchang A S H Delhi NEPAL Changsha A L G E R I A PAKISTAN Sea L S Midway ) O Laayoune Persian I L I B Y A Lucknow Kathmandu T O THE BAHRAIN Gulf Jaipur Thimphu Guiyang Okinawa N (El Aaiún) A Islands SAUDI OMAN - - Miami P E G Y P T Kanpur (U.S.) Gulf of Mexico BAHAMAS Manama Abu U Monterrey Western Kunming Taipei Y JA Matamoros Doha Dhabi ( Marcus Island - Riyadh K Nassau Sahara Aswan Karachi ¯ BANGLADESH U (JAPAN) Tropic of Cancer (23°27') QATAR Y Tropic of Cancer (23°27') Mazatlán Havana UNITED ARAB Muscat Guangzhou R Turks and Red EMIRATES Ahmadabad-- Kolkata Dhaka Mandalay Taiwan MEXICO Caicos Islands Sea ARABIA (Calcutta) Nanning Cancún (U.K.) Jiddah - Hong Kong Honolulu León Mérida Nagpur Hanoi CUBA British Virgin Mecca OMAN BURMA Macau S.A.R. Luzon Strait HAWAIIAN Guadalajara DOMINICAN Islands Pyinmana S.A.R. (U.K.) LAOS Wake Island ISLANDS Veracruz Cayman Is. Port-au- REPUBLIC Anguilla (U.K.) I N D I A Gulf of Philippine Mexico (U.K.) MAURITANIA Port Sudan To n k i n (U.S.) Prince ST. KITTS AND NEVIS Mumbai Pune Vientiane Hainan Northern (U.S.) Puebla Nouakchott - Chiang Dao ISLAS JAMAICA Santo M A L I (Bombay) Hyderabad- Mariana REVILLAGIGEDO BELIZE Kingston HAITI Puerto ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Rangoon Mai Sea Oaxaca Navassa Domingo Islands (MEXICO) Belmopan Island Rico Guadeloupe (FR.) Hue PARACEL Johnston Atoll Acapulco (U.S.) (U.S.) Tombouctou Omdurman Bay of (U.S.) CAPE VERDE N I G E R ERITREA YEMEN ISLANDS (U.S.) GUATEMALA HONDURAS Montserrat DOMINICA Sanaa THAILAND Saipan (U.K.) Dakar CHAD Khartoum Asmara VIETNAM Manila Tegucigalpa Martinique (FR.) SENEGAL Bengal Bangkok Guatemala ST. LUCIA Praia Niamey Caribbean Sea ST. VINCENT AND Banjul BURKINA Bangalore South China Guam San Salvador Aruba THE GRENADINES Bamako Aden Arabian ANDAMAN (U.S.) (NETH.) BARBADOS FASO PHILIPPINES EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA Neth. Antilles THE GAMBIA Gulf of Aden Chennai ISLANDS CAMBODIA Hagåtña (NETH.) Kano S U D A N DJIBOUTI (INDIA) Sea Managua GRENADA Bissau Ouagadougou Socotra (Madras) Barranquilla N'Djamena Djibouti (YEMEN) Sea Maracaibo Port-of-Spain GUINEA Phnom Penh Ho Chi Minh City Cebu MARSHALL San José Cartagena TRINIDAD AND GUINEA-BISSAU BENIN LAKSHADWEEP Andaman Clipperton Island Caracas NIGERIA Addis Berbera Gulf of FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA Colon TOBAGO Conakry Ababa (INDIA) Sea ISLANDS (FRANCE) COSTA CÔTE Abuja Thailand SPRATLY Panama Freetown TOGO ISLANDS RICA D'IVOIRE GHANA Ogbomoso PANAMA SIERRA Ibadan ETHIOPIA Laccadive Koror Georgetown Yamoussoukro Colombo NICOBAR Davao Palikir Majuro Kingman Reef (U.S.) VENEZUELA LEONE Lomé Lagos CENTRAL Isla del Coco Medellín Paramaribo Sea SRI ISLANDS Bandar Seri Palmyra Atoll (U.S.) (COSTA RICA) GUYANA Monrovia Abidjan Accra Porto- AFRICAN REPUBLIC (INDIA) PALAU French Guiana LIBERIA CAMEROON Juba SOMALIA LANKA Begawan Isla de Bogotá (FRANCE) Novo Bangui BRUNEI Malpelo Cayenne Douala Male Kuala SURINAME Malabo Medan Lumpur COLOMBIA EQUATORIAL GUINEA Celebes Sea Cali Yaoundé MALDIVES PENEDOS DE M A L A Y S I A Kiritimati Gulf of Guinea SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO UGANDA Tarawa (Christmas Island) SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Mogadishu Singapore Howland Island (U.S.) (BRAZIL) Kisangani Kampala (KIRIBATI) Equator Quito Equator Libreville REP. OF KENYA SINGAPORE Equator Baker Island(U.S.) 0 São Tome 0 THE Pontianak Jarvis GALAPAGOS GABON DEMOCRATIC Ya re n NAURU Island ECUADOR CONGO ISLANDS Belém ARQUIPÉLAGO DE Annobon RWANDA Kigali Nairobi District (U.S.) São Luís Lake Palembang K I R I B A T I (ECUADOR) Guayaquil Manaus FERNANDO DE NORONHA (EQUA. GUI.) REPUBLIC Victoria Iquitos (BRAZIL) Brazzaville Bujumbura Fortaleza Mombasa I N D O N E S I A Teresina BURUNDI Victoria British Indian Makassar KinshasaOF THE CONGO PAPUA Natal ANGOLA Ocean Territory Jakarta Java Sea (Cabinda) Lake Dodoma Banda Sea Ta n g a ny i k a Dar es Salaam (U.K.) Semarang NEW GUINEA SOLOMON K I R I B A T I TANZANIA Diego Surabaya Recife Bandung Dili ISLANDS ÎLES MARQUISES Trujillo Ascension Luanda SEYCHELLES Garcia Funafuti (Fr. Poly.) (St. Helena) PERU EAST Arafura TUVALU Tokelau Maceió Lake TIMOR Port Honiara (N.Z.) B R A Z I L Lubumbashi Sea Nyasa Moroni Glorioso Islands Christmas Island Timor Moresby (FRANCE) Cocos (AUSTL.) Sea COMOROS Great Lima ANGOLA (Keeling) Islands Ashmore and Darwin Wallis and SAMOA Cusco Mayotte Salvador (AUSTL.) Cartier Islands Apia Lilongwe (administered by FRANCE, Gulf of Futuna Cook Islands ZAMBIA claimed by COMOROS) (AUSTL.) Coral Mata-Utu Lago Carpentaria (FRANCE) Namibe MALAWI I N D I A N Bar Pago Pago (N.Z.) Titicaca Brasília S O U T H St. Helena Tromelin Island ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU La Paz (St. Helena) (FRANCE) rier Sea American Goiânia Lusaka Juan de Nova FIJI (Fr. Poly.) Arequipa Island (FR.) VANUATU Samoa Papeete BOLIVIA Cairns (U.S.) SOCIETY Santa Cruz A T L A N T I C Harare MOZAMBIQUE Antananarivo O C E A N Ree Coral Sea Port-Vila Niue ISLANDS Belo f Islands Suva (N.Z.) (Fr. Poly.) Sucre Horizonte ZIMBABWE Beira Mozambique Port (AUSTL.) Martin Vaz Channel Saint- Louis F r e n c h P o l y n e s i a (BRAZIL) NAMIBIA Denis New Trindade O C E A N Bassas MAURITIUS Nuku'alofa (FRANCE) (BRAZIL) da India MADAGASCAR Caledonia (FRANCE) Reunion (FRANCE) TONGA Windhoek (FRANCE) PARAGUAY Rio de Janeiro Walvis Bay BOTSWANA Europa Island Noumea Tropic of Capricorn (23°27') São Paulo (FRANCE) Tropic of Capricorn (23°27') Antofagasta ÎLES TUBUAI Gaborone Alice Springs (Fr.
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