The new map of the world ARCTIC OCEAN
On 9 July the Republic of South Sudan became the world’s newest country - instantly making the world’s atlases out of date. So here’s your new guide to the globe to pull out and keep
Svalbard NORWAY
ARCTIC CIRCLE
ICELAND Reykjavik
Alaska
US
UNITED
S TAT E S
Saint Pierre & Miquelon FRANCE
Washington NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
300 - 599
Bermuda UK
200 - 299
Guadalupe Is MEXICO
100 - 199
MEXICO Nassau
TROPIC OF CANCER
Havana
25 - 49 Hawaii US
0.1-24
Revillagigedo Islands MEXICO
THE BAHAMAS
CUBA
Cayman Is. UK JAMAICA BELIZE
Mexico City
No data
HAITI
HONDURAS G UAT E M A L A E L S A LVA D O R Clipperton FRANCE
NICARAGUA COSTA RICA
DOMINICAN REP Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands UK ST KITTS & NEVIS ANTIGUA & BARBUDA Montserrat Guadeloupe FRA. UK DOMINICA Martinique FRA. ST LUCIA BARBADOS GRENADA ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES
Caracas
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
VENEZUELA
PANAMA
Coco Is COSTA RICA Malpelo Is COLOMBIA
Bogotá
G U YA N A SURINAME FRENCH GUIANA
COLOMBIA
EQUATOR
Quito
Galapagos Islands ECUADOR
ECUADOR
K I R I BAT I PERU Tokelau NZ
BRAZIL
Lima American Samoa US Niue NZ
La Paz Sucre
Cook Islands NEW ZEALAND Pitcairn UK
PARAGUAY SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
Easter Is CHILE
Asunción
San Félix Is San Ambrosio Is CHILE
I. Sala y Gómez CHILE
CHILE Juan Fernández Islands CHILE
About our map Showing a spherical planet on a flat piece of paper has troubled cartographers for centuries. We have used the Robinson projection, developed by Arthur Robinson in 1961 as a way of showing the entire world at once . The Mercator projection - first developed in
Brasília
BOLIVIA
French Polynesia FRANCE
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
EUROPE
Novaya Zemlya
People per square km
50 - 99
New Siberian Islands
DENMARK
Ottawa
600 - 14,999
Severnaya Zemlya
GREENLAND
CANADA
15,000+
ARCTIC OCEAN
Franz Josef Land
1 ANDORRA 2 MONACO 3 SWITZERLAND 4 LUXEMBOURG 5 BELGIUM 6 NETHERLANDS 7 LIECHTENSTEIN 8 SAN MARINO 9 VATICAN CITY 10 ALBANIA 11 MACEDONIA 12 KOSOVO 13 MONTENEGRO 14 SERBIA 15 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Wrangel Is
ARCTIC CIRCLE
ARCTIC CIRCLE
FINLAND Faroe Islands DENMARK
NORWAY Oslo
SWEDEN Stockholm
Helsinki Tallinn
RUSS I A N F E D E R AT I O N
25
16 CROATIA 17 SLOVENIA 18 AUSTRIA 19 HUNGARY 20 SLOVAKIA 21 CZECH REPUBLIC 22 MOLDOVA 23 LITHUANIA 24 LATVIA 25 ESTONIA 26 GEORGIA 27 ARMENIA 28 AZERBAIJAN 29 CYPRUS
Riga 24 Moscow DENMARK Copenhagen 23 Vilnius Minsk UK Dublin Berlin POLAND Amsterdam Warsaw BELARUS 6 IRELAND London Astana GERMANY 5 Brussels Kiev 21 Prague Channel 20 UKRAINE Vienna Paris 4 Islands K A Z A K H S TA N Bratislava 7 22 Ulan Bator UK Budapest 18 Chisinau 19 FRANCE 3 Berne ROMANIA 17 MONGOLIA Belgrade Bucharest ITALY 16 15 14 2 BULGARIA 8 UZBEKISTAN Bishkek 12 1 26 Sofia 9 SPAIN Tbilisi KYRGYZSTAN 11 13 Rome Tashkent 28 Baku NORTH KOREA 10 Madrid PORTUGAL Ankara Yerevan 27 Azores Beijing Pyongyang TURKMENISTAN TAJIKISTAN Lisbon PORTUGAL Dushanbe TURKEY Athens Ashgabat JAPAN NORTH Seoul Tunis Gibraltar GREECE PACIFIC SOUTH KOREA MALTA UK Tokyo Algiers SYRIA Kabul Tehran IRAQ 29 OCEAN CHINA TUNISIA Rabat AFGHANISTAN 1 Beirut Damascus IRAN Baghdad Madeira Jerusalem Tripoli Islamabad MOROCCO Amman PORTUGAL 2 JORDAN Cairo New 3 Kuwait BHUTAN Canary Islands NEPAL Delhi PAKISTAN ALGERIA SAUDI SPAIN Thimphu Kathmandu ARABIA L I B YA EGYPT 4 Doha JAPAN WESTERN Taipei 6 5 BANGLADESH SAHARA Riyadh TROPIC OF CANCER TROPIC OF CANCER Abu Muscat TA I WA N Dacca Hong Kong Dhabi Macau INDIA BURMA OMAN Hanoi LAOS Naypyidaw MAURITANIA MALI Northern Mariana Is Vientiane SUDAN Nouakchott NIGER US Rangoon CAPE VERDE ERITREA YEMEN SENEGAL CHAD Khartoum THAILAND Manila Sanaa Asmara Dakar VIETNAM Praia Bangkok Bamako MARSHALL Guam Niamey GAMBIA Andaman BURKINA Socotra CAMBODIA ISLANDS Bissau N'Djamena Islands FASO Ougadougou PHILIPPINES YEMEN Addis DJIBOUTI GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA Phnom INDIA BENIN N I G E R I A Ababa Conakry Penh SOMALIA Majuro GHANA Nicobar Freetown FEDERATED STATES IVORY Abuja SRI LANKA SOUTH Islands SIERRA LEONE ETHIOPIA OF MICRONESIA TOGO Ngerulmud COAST CENTRAL INDIA SUDAN Palikir Porto-Novo Monrovia Accra AFRICAN REP BRUNEI Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte Lome CAMEROON Juba LIBERIA Tarawa Kuala Lumpur Bangui Male Yamoussoukro Yaounde PALAU M A L A Y S I A EQUATORIAL GUINEA Mogadishu UGANDA MALDIVES São Paulo SINGAP ORE KENYA EQUATOR SÃO TOMÉ & PRINCIPE EQUATOR EQUATOR EQUATOR BRAZIL Libreville Kampala D E M O C R AT I C Borneo GABON Sumatra Yaren Nairobi RWANDA KIRIBATI REPUBLIC INDIAN NAURU CONGO BURUNDI Fernando de Noronha I N D O N E S I A OF THE OCEAN Brazzaville CHAGOS PAPUA NEW BRAZIL Victoria Kinshasa ARCHIPELAGO CONGO Dodoma SOLOMON Jakarta GUINEA UK DIEGO GARCIA Dar es Salaam ISLANDS Java UK TA N Z A N I A SEYCHELLES Ascension Dili Funafuti Luanda UK Port Honiara EAST Tokelau TUVALU Moresby Christmas Is COMOROS TIMOR NZ AUSTRALIA Moroni ANGOLA Cocos Islands Wallis & Mayotte SAMOA MALAWI AUSTRALIA Futuna FRANCE Apia Lilongwe ZAMBIA FRA. VANUATU Lusaka Saint Helena MIDDLE EAST MADAGASCAR UK Port Vila TONGA Suva 1 LEBANON Harare MOZAMBIQUE Antananarivo ZIMBABWE 2 ISRAEL & OCCUPIED FIJI NAMIBIA MAURITIUS Martin Vaz Islands Reunion Nuku'alofa New Caledonia BRAZIL PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES FRANCE FRANCE BOTSWANA Windhoek TROPIC OF CAPRICORN 3 KUWAIT Gaborone 4 BAHRAIN AUSTRALIA SOUTH SOUTH Maputo 5 QATAR Tshwane ATLANTIC PACIFIC SWAZILAND 6 OCEAN OCEAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES LESOTHO
Santiago
SOUTH AFRICA
U R U G U AY
Montevideo Buenos Aires
Canberra
ARGENTINA
Tristan da Cunha UK
1569 - is still used by many online mapping services, such as Google, but it does not represent the earth well on paper. You would not be able to use this map to navigate across the planet but it still represents one of the clearest ways of illustrating the globe
Amsterdam Is Saint Paul Is FRANCE
Gough UK
NEW ZEALAND Wellington
Crozet Islands FRANCE
Prince Edward Islands SOUTH AFRICA
Kerguelen Islands FRANCE
Falkland Islands UK South Georgia UK
Heard Island AUSTRALIA
Bouvet NORWAY South Sandwich Islands UK
South Orkney Islands UK
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
ANTARCTIC CIRCLE
ANTARCTIC CIRCLE
A N TA RC T I C A
Republic of South Sudan
Newest countries
Biggest populations
Smallest populations
9 July, 2011
Population c.9.7m Population density c.15.7 Area 619,745 sq km Maternal mortality ratio 2,037 deaths per 100,000 live births - highest in the world Trained/skilled midwife attending births 5% Teenage pregnancies 204 per 1,000 females aged 15-19 HIV rate 7% SOURCES: UN POP DIVISION, WORLD BANK, UNHCR GRAPHIC: JENNY RIDLEY, COPY & RESEARCH: SIMON ROGERS
Kosovo (not fully recognised) 17 February 2008
Russian Federation 25 December 1991
China
Montenegro 21 May 2006
Kazakhstan 16 December 1991
India
East Timor 20 May 2002
Croatia 8 October 1991
Became a nation in November 1975. Occupied by Indonesia until 1999 and administered by the UN until 2002
Palau 1 October 1994 Eritrea 24 May 1993 Slovakia 1 January 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 March 1 1992
US
1,347,565,000 1,241,492,000 313,085,000 242,326,000 Indonesia
Most densely populated
The richest countries
The poorest countries
Where refugees come from
People per square km
Gross national income, $ per person, 2009
Gross national income, $ per person, 2009
Refugees and people in refugee-like situations, 2010
Vatican City 900
Macao
Tokelau 1,000
Monaco
Niue 1,000
Singapore
3,000 Falkland Islands
Hong Kong
19,213 16,406 7,125 6,721
$160 Dem Rep Congo
Iraq
Norway
$84,640
$160 Liberia
Somalia
Luxembourg
196,655,000 Brazil
4,000 Saint Helena
176,745,000 Pakistan
6,000 Montserrat
1,297 Malta
Denmark
Macedonia 8 September 1991
162,471,000 Nigeria
6,000 Saint Pierre & Miquelon
1,288 Bermuda
Sweden
Uzbekistan 1 September 1991
150,494,000 Bangladesh
10,000 Tuvalu
1,246 Bangladesh
142,836,000 Russia
10,000 Nauru
1,041 Bahrain
13,000 Wallis & Futuna Islands
1,031 Maldives
126,497,000 Japan
Afghanistan
$136,630
Tajikistan 9 September 1991
All of these countries are recognised by the UN except for Kosovo, which is recognised by 76 out of 192 UN members
$150 Burundi
Liechtenstein
Armenia 23 September 1991
3,105 Gibraltar
$197,590
Monaco
Switzerland
$76,710 $65,430 $59,060 $48,840
$290 Malawi
3,054,709 1,683,579
770,154
476,693 Dem Rep Congo
Where refugees go Pakistan
1,900,621 1,073,366
Iran Syria
1,005,472 594,269 Germany
$320 Eritrea
415,670 Burma
450,915 Jordan
$330 Ethiopia
395,577 Colombia
402,905 Kenya
$340 Niger
387,288 Sudan
347,939 Chad
338,698 Vietnam
300,986 China
$48,460 Netherlands
$340 Sierra Leone
Austria
$46,450
$360 Zimbabwe
222,460 Eritrea
264,574 US
US
$46,360
$370 Guinea
184,602 China
238,150 UK
