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Political Map of the World

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The map above is a political map of the world centered on Europe and Africa. It shows the location of most of the world's countries and includes their names where space allows.



Representing a round earth on a flat map requires some distortion of the geographic features no matter how the map is done. We have used a Mercator projection for this map because it is the projection most commonly used in schools. On this map, geographic boundaries that trend north-south appear as vertical lines, geographic boundaries that trend east-west appear as horizontal lines. This type of projection causes a minimum of country-shape distortion near the equator, a small amount of distortion at mid-latitudes, but extreme distortion near the poles. For that reason, the map does not extend to the north and south poles.

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CIA Political Map of the World

Political maps of the world prepared by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

World Physical Map

Physical Map of the World

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The map shown here is a terrain relief image of the world with the boundaries of major countries shown as white lines. It includes the names of the world's oceans and the names of major bays, gulfs, and seas. Lowest elevations are shown as a dark green color with a gradient from green to dark brown to gray as elevation increases. This allows the major mountain ranges and lowlands to be clearly visible.



This map is also a Mercator projection centered on Europe and Africa. A scale of miles is not shown on these maps because the scale changes with distance north and south of the equator. Scale is highly exaggerated as distance from the equator increases.

Countries Labeled on the World Country Map:

Afghanistan

Algeria

Angola

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Belarus

Belgium

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burma

Burundi

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Cote d'Ivoire

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Dem. Rep. of the Congo

Denmark

Djibouti

Ecuador

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

eSwatini

Ethiopia

Fiji

Finland

France

French Guiana

Gabon

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Greenland

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Lithuania

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Mali

Mauritania

Mexico

Moldova

Mongolia

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Nepal

Netherlands

New Caledonia

New Zealand

Niger

Nigeria

North Korea

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Republic of the Congo

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea

South Sudan

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Svalbard

Sweden

Syria

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

The Gambia

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

U.A.E.

Uganda

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Venezuela

Vietnam

Western Sahara

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe