The new map of the World

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
completely out of date.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
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
HAITI
ST KITTS & NEVIS
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA
MONTSERRAT
Guadeloupe FRA.
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
New
Zemlya
People per square km
50 - 99
New Siberian Islands
DENMARK
Ottawa
600 - 14,999
North Land
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
20
UKRAINE
Vienna
Paris
4
K A Z A K H S TA N
Bratislava
7
22
Ulan Bator
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
YEMEN
ERITREA
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
Freetown
FEDERATED STATES
IVORY
Nicobar
Abuja
SOUTH
SIERRA LEONE
ETHIOPIA
OF MICRONESIA
TOGO
Ngerulmud
COAST
Islands
CENTRAL
Colombo
SUDAN
Palikir
Porto-Novo
Monrovia
INDIA
Accra
AFRICAN REP
BRUNEI
SRI LANKA
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
NAURU
CONGO
INDIAN
BURUNDI
Fernando de Noronha
I
N
D
O
N
E
S
I
A
OF THE
Brazzaville
PAPUA NEW
OCEAN
BRAZIL
Victoria
Kinshasa
CONGO
Dodoma
SOLOMON
Jakarta
GUINEA
Dar es Salaam
ISLANDS
Java
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
&
WEST
BANK
FIJI
NAMIBIA
MAURITIUS
Martin Vaz Islands
Reunion
Nuku'alofa
New Caledonia
3 KUWAIT
BRAZIL
FRANCE
BOTSWANA
FRANCE
Windhoek
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
4 BAHRAIN
Gaborone
5 QATAR
AUSTRALIA
SOUTH
SOUTH
Maputo
6 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Tshwane
ATLANTIC
PACIFIC
SWAZILAND
OCEAN
OCEAN
LESOTHO
Santiago
SOUTH AFRICA
U R U G U AY
Montevideo
Buenos Aires
Canberra
ARGENTINA
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
Tristan da Cunha
UK
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
450,915 Jordan
$320 Eritrea
415,670 Burma
$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