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Political Map of the World, June 2012 Political Map of the World, June 2012 AUSTRALIA Independent state Bermuda Dependency or area of special sovereignty Sicily / AZORES Island / island group 150 120 90 60 30 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 Capital Alert FRANZ JOSEF ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN LAND SEVERNAYA ARCTIC OCEAN ZEMLYA Ellesmere Island QUEEN ELIZABETH Qaanaaq (Thule) Longyearbyen NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS Scale 1:35,000,000 Svalbard NOVAYA Kara Sea ISLANDS Greenland Sea ZEMLYA Laptev Sea Robinson Projection Banks (NORWAY) Barents Sea Island Resolute East Siberian Sea standard parallels 38°N and 38°S Pond Inlet Baffin Greenland Wrangel Beaufort Sea (DENMARK) Island Barrow Victoria Bay Tiksi Island Baffin Jan Mayen Norwegian Pevek Chukchi Island (NORWAY) Noril'sk Sea Murmansk Cherskiy Sea Arctic Circle (66°33') Arctic Circle (66°33') NORWAY Fairbanks Great Nuuk White Sea Anadyr' Nome (Godthåb) ICELAND Provideniya U. S. Bear Lake Iqaluit Denmark SWEDEN Arkhangel'sk Davis Strait Faroe Reykjavík Islands FINLAND Strait Gulf Lake Yakutsk (DEN.) Ladoga R U S S I A Anchorage Great Tórshavn of Lake Whitehorse Slave Lake Bothnia Helsinki Onega 60 Hudson Oslo Magadan 60 Bay Stockholm Tallinn Saint Petersburg Rockall EST. Perm' Gulf of Alaska Juneau Churchill Baltic Kuujjuaq Labrador (U.K.) Yaroslavl' Tyumen' Bering Sea Fort McMurray Sea Riga¯ Nizhniy Izhevsk North LAT. Novgorod Tomsk Sea Glasgow DENMARK Moscow Kazan' Yekaterinburg Krasnoyarsk Sea Copenhagen LITH. Chelyabinsk Novosibirsk Lake Prince Belfast UNITED RUSSIA Vilnius Ufa Omsk Sea of C A N A D A Minsk Ul'yanovsk Baikal S George Happy Valley- Leeds ND Goose Bay Dublin Isle of Hamburg Samara Barnaul Okhotsk ISLA Edmonton Man BELARUS N Lake IRELAND (U.K.) KINGDOM Amsterdam Berlin Warsaw U.S. UTIA Saskatoon . Irkutsk Chita Petropavlovsk- ALE Winnipeg Birmingham Lódz Homyel Voronezh Saratov Orenburg Kamchatskiy NETH. Cologne Astana Sakhalin A S Island of London Brussels POLAND L E U N D Calgary GERMANY Kyiv Qaraghandy T I A N I S L A Winnipeg Newfoundland Lille Prague Kraków L'viv Celtic BELGIUM LUX. Frankfurt (Karaganda) Vancouver Guernsey(U.K.) Luxembourg CZECH REP. U K R A I N E Kharkiv Sea Jersey(U.K.) SLOVAKIA Volgograd Khabarovsk Gulf of Paris Munich Vienna Bratislava Donets'k K A Z A K H S T A N Ulaanbaatar KURIL LIECH. MOLDOVA Lake St. Lawrence AUSTRIA ( Rostov Seattle Lake Québec FRANCE Budapest Chis¸inau Atyraü Lake Balkhash ISLANDS Superior Bern SLOVENIA HUNGARY Odesa Aral Huron SWITZ. Astrakhan' Lyon Ljubljana ROMANIA Sea of Sea M O N G O L I A Harbin Montréal St. Pierre Milan Azov Minneapolis Lake and Miquelon Bay of Zagreb CROATIA Belgrade Portland Ottawa Bordeaux Turin SAN Bucharest Biscay BOS. & Occupied by SOVIET UNION in 1945, Michigan Halifax (FRANCE) MARINO HER. Ürümqi Changchun Toronto Lake Ontario Toulouse MONACO Genoa SERBIA Aqtaü Jilin Milwaukee Sarajevo (Aktau) Almaty Vladivostok Sapporo administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN Bilbao Marseille ITALY Pristina Sofia Black Sea Detroit Boston Podgorica GEORGIA Shymkent Chicago Buffalo ANDORRA Corsica VATICAN KOS. BULGARIA Caspian Bishkek Shenyang N O R T H (FR.) CITY MONT. Skopje Tbilisi Lake Erie Providence Porto Rome Tirana Istanbul Sea Tashkent KYRGYZSTAN Salt Lake City Cleveland Barcelona MACEDONIA Baotou Pittsburgh New York Madrid Naples ALB. ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN Beijing NORTH KOREA Denver Indianapolis PORTUGAL Ankara UZBEKISTAN Sea of N O R T H Kansas City Saint Philadelphia Valencia Sardinia Bursa Yerevan Baku Kashi Datong Cincinnati Baltimore SPAIN BALEARIC (IT.) GREECE . TURKMENISTAN Tianjin Pyongyang P A C I F I C Sacramento Louis N O R T H ISLANDS T U R K E Y Japan Palermo Izmir Dushanbe Shijiazhuang Dalian San Francisco Washington, D.C. Lisbon (SP.) Konya Ashgabat TAJIKISTAN AZORES Sevilla Athens Gaziantep Tabriz¯ Taiyuan Yantai Seoul JAPAN P A C I F I C Málaga Algiers Sicily Adana Zibo U N I T E D S T A T E S (PORT.) (IT.) Mosul SOUTH Las Vegas Norfolk Mashhad Indian Lanzhou Jinan A T L A N T I C Gibraltar(U.K.) Tunis MALTA 1972 KOREA Tokyo O C E A N Nashville Ceuta(SP.) Constantine Valletta Aleppo Tehran claim Qingdao Charlotte Oran Nicosia Erbil Line of Control Yellow Busan Nagoya Oklahoma City Melilla TUNISIA SYRIA Qom Kabul Zhengzhou Hiroshima Yokohama O C E A N (SP.) Crete Hera¯t Sea Los Angeles MADEIRA Rabat (GR.) CYPRUS Beirut Pesha¯war Line of O¯ saka Atlanta IRAQ C H I N A Phoenix ISLANDS Casablanca Fès Mediterranean Sea Damascus Kermanshah Actual Xi'an Bermuda LEBANON Control Fukuoka San Diego Dallas O C E A N (PORT.) Tripoli Es¸faha¯n AFGHANISTAN Islamabad (U.K.) Baghdad Tel Aviv-Yafo Nanjing Nantong N A M P O - S H O T O Tijuana El Paso Mexicali Marrakech Bengha¯zi¯ ISRAEL Ahva¯z Kandaha¯r Lahore Alexandria Jerusalem Amman Faisala¯ba¯d Hefei Shanghai Ciudad New I R A N Al Bas¸rah Chengdu Wuhan S Austin Orleans Jacksonville MOROCCO Cairo JORDAN Quetta Multa¯n Ludhia¯na Hangzhou Juarez Houston D 30 - 30 CANARY ISLANDS (JAPAN) Al Jizah¯ KUWAIT New Lhasa Ningbo N San (SP.) Shira¯ ¯z Za¯heda¯n Chongqing Nanchang East China Chihuahua Orlando Kuwait Delhi A BHUTAN A L G E R I A PAKISTAN Changsha Antonio Tampa NEPAL Sea L A¯ gra S ) L I B Y A Kathmandu I Thimphu N BAHRAIN Guiyang Okinawa Laayoune SAUDI Persian Jaipur A Midway Lucknow - E G Y P T OMAN Fuzhou P Monterrey Miami Ka¯npur Manama Gulf Hydera¯ba¯d Patna A Islands THE Abu U J Matamoros Nassau Western Kunming Taipei Y ( Torreón Gulf of Mexico Riyadh Doha Dhabi Minami-tori-shima (U.S.) Medina Gulf of Oman BANGLADESH Xiamen K BAHAMAS Aswa¯n Kara¯chi U (JAPAN) Sahara Dhaka Y Tropic of Cancer (23°27') MEXICO QATAR UNITED ARAB Muscat Bhopa¯l Shantou R Tropic of Cancer (23°27') Havana Ahmada¯ba¯d Guangzhou HAWAIIAN ISLANDS San Luis Turks and British EMIRATES Jamshedpur Khulna Taiwan Caicos Islands Virgin ARABIA Mandalay Nanning Potosí (U.K.) Virgin Islands Indore Kolkata Hong Kong Kaohsiung Islands (U.K.) Red Jeddah Chittagong León Mérida CUBA Su¯rat Na¯gpur Hanoi Zhanjiang Macau S.A.R. Honolulu Guadalajara Cancún (U.S.) Sea Mecca OMAN Luzon Mexico DOMINICAN Anguilla (U.K.) BURMA S.A.R. Cayman Is. LAOS Haiphong Wake Island City REPUBLIC Saint-Martin (FR.) Port Sudan I N D I A Strait U.S. (U.K.) Port-au- San Santiago Sint Maarten (NETH.) MAURITANIA Mumbai Nay Pyi Gulf of Philippine (U.S.) Toluca Prince Juan Pune To n k i n Northern Puebla JAMAICA Saint Barthelemy (FR.) Taw Vientiane Hainan ST. KITTS AND NEVIS M A L I Chiang Dao Mariana ISLAS HAITI Santo Puerto Nouakchott Hydera¯ba¯d Mai REVILLAGIGEDO Oaxaca BELIZE Kingston ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Visha¯khapatnam Sea Islands Belmopan Navassa Domingo Rico Timbuktu Rangoon PARACEL (MEXICO) Acapulco Island Guadeloupe (FR.) S U D A N Da Nang ISLANDS (U.S.) Johnston Atoll (U.S.) (U.S.) N I G E R ERITREA Vijayawa¯da CAPE VERDE Omdurman YEMEN Bay of (U.S.) GUATEMALA HONDURAS Montserrat DOMINICA Kassala Asmara THAILAND Saipan (U.K.) Dakar CHAD Khartoum Sanaa VIETNAM Manila Tegucigalpa Caribbean Sea Martinique (FR.) Praia SENEGAL Bangkok Guatemala City ST. VINCENT AND Niamey Bengal Guam ST. LUCIA Banjul BURKINA ANDAMAN Hagåtña San Salvador Aruba THE GRENADINES Bangalore Chennai South China (U.S.) BARBADOS Bamako Mek’ele¯ Aden Arabian ISLANDS CAMBODIA PHILIPPINES EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA (NETH.) Curacao(NETH.) THE GAMBIA FASO Gulf of Aden Kano N'Djamena DJIBOUTI (INDIA) Managua GRENADA Bissau Ouagadougou Nyala Socotra Sea Barranquilla Djibouti Coimbatore Phnom MARSHALL Maracaibo Caracas Port of Spain GUINEA-BISSAU (YEMEN) Sea Kozhikode Andaman Ho Chi Minh Cartagena GUINEA BENIN LAKSHADWEEP Penh City Cebu FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA San José TRINIDAD AND NIGERIA Addis Madurai ISLANDS Clipperton Island Valencia Conakry Hargeysa (INDIA) Sea Gulf of Colón TOBAGO Abuja Ababa Kochi (FRANCE) Panama Ciudad CÔTE TOGO COSTA City Guayana Freetown Thailand SPRATLY RICA Cúcuta D'IVOIRE GHANA Ogbomoso ISLANDS PANAMA SIERRA SOUTH Melekeok Yamoussoukro Ibadan ETHIOPIA Laccadive Colombo Zamboanga Davao Palikir Majuro Kingman Reef (U.S.) Georgetown LEONE CENTRAL NICOBAR Isla del Coco Medellín VENEZUELA Lomé Lagos SUDAN Sea SRI Palmyra Atoll (U.S.) (COSTA RICA) Paramaribo Accra AFRICAN REPUBLIC ISLANDS Isla de GUYANA Monrovia Abidjan Porto- CAMEROON Bandar Seri French Guiana Juba SOMALIA LANKA (INDIA) Begawan PALAU Malpelo Bogotá LIBERIA Novo Bangui (COLOMBIA) SURINAME Cayenne (FRANCE) Douala Male Kuala BRUNEI Malabo Medan Lumpur COLOMBIA EQUATORIAL GUINEA MALDIVES Celebes Sea Cali Yaoundé M A L A Y S I A Kiritimati PENEDOS DE Gulf of Guinea UGANDA (Christmas Island) Mogadishu Singapore Tarawa Howland Island SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE (U.S.) (BRAZIL) Kisangani Kampala Pekanbaru (KIRIBATI) Equator Quito Equator Sâo Tomé Libreville REP. OF KENYA SINGAPORE Equator 0 Baker Island (U.S.) 0 Jarvis THE Padang Pontianak NAURU GABON DEMOCRATIC Nairobi Samarinda Yaren Island GALAPAGOS ECUADOR CONGO Belém ARQUIPÉLAGO DE Annobon RWANDA Kigali District K I R I B A T I (U.S.) ISLANDS (EQUA. GUI.) Lake Palembang Guayaquil Manaus São Luís FERNANDO DE NORONHA REPUBLIC Victoria Banjarmasin Jayapura (ECUADOR) Iquitos (BRAZIL) Bujumbura Fortaleza Brazzaville Mombasa Victoria British Indian Teresina Pointe-Noire OF THE CONGO BURUNDI I N D O N E S I A Kinshasa Ocean Territory Tanjungkarang- PAPUA Natal ANGOLA Java Sea Makassar Mbuji-Mayi Dodoma Telukbetung Jakarta Banda Sea (Cabinda) (U.K.) NEW GUINEA SOLOMON João Pessoa Lake Dar es Salaam Bandung K I R I B A T I Ascension Tanganyika TANZANIA Diego Semarang Surabaya ISLANDS Trujillo SEYCHELLES Díli ÎLES MARQUISES Pôrto Velho Recife Luanda Garcia Malang Arafura Funafuti (Fr. Poly.) Denpasar Tokelau PERU TIMOR-LESTE Sea Honiara TUVALU B R A Z I L Maceió Lake Port (N.Z.) Lubumbashi Nyasa Glorioso Islands Christmas Island Kupang Moresby Moroni (FRANCE) (AUSTL.) Timor Lima ANGOLA Ashmore and Sea Wallis and Benguela COMOROS Great Ndola Cocos Cartier Islands Darwin Futuna SAMOA Cusco Salvador Mayotte (Keeling) Islands Apia Cook Islands Lilongwe (AUSTL.) Gulf of ZAMBIA (administered by FRANCE, (AUSTL.) Mata-Utu (N.Z.) claimed by COMOROS) Coral Lago Namibe MALAWI Tromelin Island Carpentaria (FRANCE) Pago Pago Lusaka I N D I A N Barrier Titicaca BOLIVIA Brasília S O U T H Saint Helena Blantyre (FRANCE) American Juan de Nova Sea FIJI ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU Arequipa La Paz Goiânia Samoa (Fr.
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