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appendix f :: cross-reference list of geographic names
This appendix cross-references a wide variety of geographic names to the appropriate Factbook "country" entry. Additional information is included in parentheses.
 
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Name Entry in
The World Factbook		 Latitude
(deg min)		 Longitude
(deg min)
Abidjan (capital) Cote d'Ivoire 5 19 N 4 02 W
Abkhazia (region) Georgia 43 00 N 41 00 E
Abu Dhabi (capital) United Arab Emirates 24 28 N 54 22 E
Abu Musa (island) Iran 25 52 N 55 03 E
Abuja (capital) Nigeria 9 12 N 7 11 E
Abyssinia (former name for Ethiopia) Ethiopia 8 00 N 38 00 E
Acapulco (city) Mexico 16 51 N 99 55 W
Accra (capital) Ghana 5 33 N 0 13 W
Adamstown (capital) Pitcairn Islands 25 04 S 130 05 W
Addis Ababa (capital) Ethiopia 9 02 N 38 42 E
Adelie Land (claimed by France; also Terre Adelie) Antarctica 66 30 S 139 00 E
Aden (city) Yemen 12 46 N 45 01 E
Aden, Gulf of Indian Ocean 12 30 N 48 00 E
Admiralty Island United States (Alaska) 57 44 N 134 20 W
Admiralty Islands Papua New Guinea 2 10 S 147 00 E
Adriatic Sea Atlantic Ocean 42 30 N 16 00 E
Adygey (region) Russia 44 30 N 40 10 E
Aegean Islands Greece 38 00 N 25 00 E
Aegean Sea Atlantic Ocean 38 30 N 25 00 E
Afars and Issas, French Territory of the (or FTAI; former name for Djibouti) Djibouti 11 30 N 43 00 E
Afghanestan (local name for Afghanistan) Afghanistan 33 00 N 65 00 E
Agalega Islands Mauritius 10 25 S 56 40 E
Agana (city; former name for Hagatna) Guam 13 28 N 144 45 E
Ajaccio (city) France (Corsica) 41 55 N 8 44 E
Ajaria (region) Georgia 41 45 N 42 10 E
Akmola (city; former name for Astana) Kazakhstan 51 10 N 71 30 E
Aksai Chin (region) China (de facto), India (claimed) 35 00 N 79 00 E
Al Arabiyah as Suudiyah (local name for Saudi Arabia) Saudi Arabia 25 00 N 45 00 E
Al Bahrayn (local name for Bahrain) Bahrain 26 00 N 50 33 E
Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah (local name for the United Arab Emirates) United Arab Emirates 24 00 N 54 00 E
Al Iraq (local name for Iraq) Iraq 33 00 N 44 00 E
Al Jaza'ir (local name for Algeria) Algeria 28 00 N 3 00 E
Al Kuwayt (local name for Kuwait) Kuwait 29 30 N 45 45 E
Al Maghrib (local name for Morocco) Morocco 32 00 N 5 00 W
Al Urdun (local name for Jordan) Jordan 31 00 N 36 00 E
Al Yaman (local name for Yemen) Yemen 15 00 N 48 00 E
Aland Islands Finland 60 15 N 20 00 E
Alaska (state) United States 65 00 N 153 00 W
Alaska, Gulf of Pacific Ocean 58 00 N 145 00 W
Alboran Sea Atlantic Ocean 36 00 N 2 30 W
Aldabra Islands (Groupe d'Aldabra) Seychelles 9 25 S 46 22 E
Alderney (island) Guernsey 49 43 N 2 12 W
Aleutian Islands United States (Alaska) 52 00 N 176 00 W
Alexander Archipelago (island group) United States (Alaska) 57 00 N 134 00 W
Alexander Island Antarctica 71 00 S 70 00 W
Alexandretta (region; former name for Iskenderun) Turkey 36 34 N 36 08 E
Alexandria (city) Egypt 31 12 N 29 54 E
Algiers (capital) Algeria 36 47 N 2 03 E
Alhucemas, Penon de (island group) Spain 35 13 N 3 53 W
Alma-Ata (city; former name for Almaty) Kazakhstan 43 15 N 76 57 E
Almaty (former capital) Kazakhstan 43 15 N 76 57 E
Alofi (capital) Niue 19 01 S 169 55 W
Alphonse Island Seychelles 7 01 S 52 45 E
Alsace (region) France 48 30 N 7 20 E
Amami Strait Pacific Ocean 28 40 N 129 30 E
Amindivi Islands (former name for Laccadive Islands) India 11 30 N 72 30 E
Amirante Isles (island group; also Les Amirantes) Seychelles 6 00 S 53 10 E
Amman (capital) Jordan 31 57 N 35 56 E
Amsterdam (capital) Netherlands 52 23 N 4 54 E
Amsterdam Island (Ile Amsterdam) French Southern and Antarctic Lands 37 52 S 77 32 E
Amundsen Sea Southern Ocean 72 30 S 112 00 W
Amur River China, Russia 52 56 N 141 10 E
Amurskiy Liman (strait) Pacific Ocean 53 00 N 141 30 E
Anadyrskiy Zaliv (gulf) Pacific Ocean 64 00 N 177 00 E
Anatolia (region) Turkey 39 00 N 35 00 E
Andaman Islands India 12 00 N 92 45 E
Andaman Sea Indian Ocean 10 00 N 95 00 E
Andorra la Vella (capital) Andorra 42 30 N 1 30 E
Andros (island) Greece 37 45 N 24 42 E
Andros Island The Bahamas 24 26 N 77 57 W
Anegada Passage Atlantic Ocean 18 30 N 63 40 W
Angkor Wat (ruins) Cambodia 13 26 N 103 50 E
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (former name for Sudan) Sudan 15 00 N 30 00 E
Anjouan (island) Comoros 12 15 S 44 25 E
Ankara (capital) Turkey 39 56 N 32 52 E
Annobon (island) Equatorial Guinea 1 25 S 5 36 E
Antananarivo (capital) Madagascar 18 52 S 47 30 E
Antigua (island) Antigua and Barbuda 14 34 N 90 44 W
Antipodes Islands New Zealand 49 41 S 178 43 E
Antwerp (city) Belgium 51 13 N 4 25 E
Aomen (local Chinese short-form name for Macau) Macau 22 10 N 113 33 E
Aozou Strip (region) Chad 22 00 N 18 00 E
Apia (capital) Samoa 13 50 S 171 44 W
Aqaba, Gulf of Indian Ocean 29 00 N 34 30 E
Arab, Shatt al (river) Iran, Iraq 29 57 N 48 34 E
Arabian Sea Indian Ocean 15 00 N 65 00 E
Arafura Sea Pacific Ocean 9 00 S 133 00 E
Aral Sea Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan 45 00 N 60 00 E
Argun River China, Russia 53 20 N 121 28 E
Aru Sea Pacific Ocean 6 15 S 135 00 E
As-Sudan (local name for Sudan) Sudan 15 00 N 30 00 E
Ascension Island Saint Helena 7 57 S 14 22 W
Ashgabat, Ashkhabad (capital) Turkmenistan 37 57 N 58 23 E
Asmara, Asmera (capital) Eritrea 15 20 N 38 53 E
Assumption Island Seychelles 9 46 S 46 34 E
Astana (capital; formerly Akmola) Kazakhstan 51 10 N 71 30 E
Asuncion (capital) Paraguay 25 16 S 57 40 W
Asuncion Island Northern Mariana Islands 19 40 N 145 24 E
Atacama (desert) Chile 23 00 S 70 10 W
Atacama (region) Chile 24 30 S 69 15 W
Athens (capital) Greece 37 59 N 23 44 E
Attu Island United States 52 55 N 172 57 E
Auckland (city) New Zealand 36 52 S 174 46 E
Auckland Islands New Zealand 51 00 S 166 30 E
Australes, Iles (island group; also Iles Tubuai) French Polynesia 23 20 S 151 00 W
Avarua (capital) Cook Islands 21 12 S 159 46 W
Axel Heiberg Island Canada 79 30 N 90 00 W
Azad Kashmir (region) Pakistan 34 30 N 74 00 E
Azarbaycan, Azerbaidzhan (local name for Azerbaijan) Azerbaijan 40 30 N 47 30 E
Azores (islands) Portugal 38 30 N 28 00 W
Azov, Sea of Atlantic Ocean 49 00 N 36 00 E
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Name Entry in
The World Factbook		 Latitude
(deg min)		 Longitude
(deg min)
Bab el Mandeb (strait) Indian Ocean 12 40 N 43 20 E
Babuyan Channel Pacific Ocean 18 44 N 121 40 E
Babuyan Islands Philippines 19 10 N 121 40 E
Baffin Bay Arctic Ocean 73 00 N 66 00 W
Baffin Island Canada 68 00 N 70 00 W
Baghdad (capital) Iraq 33 21 N 44 25 E
Baku (capital; also Baki, Baky) Azerbaijan 40 23 N 49 51 E
Balabac Strait Pacific Ocean 7 35 N 117 00 E
Balearic Islands Spain 39 30 N 3 00 E
Balearic Sea (Iberian Sea) Atlantic Ocean 40 30 N 2 00 E
Bali (island) Indonesia 8 20 S 115 00 E
Bali Sea Indian Ocean 7 45 S 115 30 E
Balintang Channel Pacific Ocean 19 49 N 121 40 E
Balintang Islands Philippines 19 55 N 122 10 E
Balkan Peninsula Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part) 42 00 N 23 00 E
Balleny Islands Antarctica 67 00 S 163 00 E
Balochistan (region) Pakistan 28 00 N 63 00 E
Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean 57 00 N 19 00 E
Bamako (capital) Mali 12 39 N 8 00 W
Banaba (Ocean Island) Kiribati 0 52 S 169 35 E
Banat (region) Hungary, Romania, Serbia 45 30 N 21 00 E
Banda Sea Pacific Ocean 5 00 S 128 00 E
Bandar Seri Begawan (capital) Brunei 4 53 N 114 56 E
Bangka (island) Indonesia 2 30 S 106 00 E
Bangkok (capital) Thailand 13 45 N 100 31 E
Bangui (capital) Central African Republic 4 22 N 18 35 E
Banjul (capital) The Gambia 13 28 N 16 39 W
Banks Island Australia 10 12 S 142 16 E
Banks Island Canada 75 15 N 121 30 W
Banks Islands (Iles Banks) Vanuatu 14 00 S 167 30 E
Barbuda (island) Antigua and Barbuda 17 38 N 61 48 W
Barcelona (city) Spain 41 25 N 2 13 E
Barents Sea Arctic Ocean 74 00 N 36 00 E
Barranquilla (city) Colombia 10 59 N 74 48 W
Bashi Channel Pacific Ocean 22 00 N 121 00 E
Basilan Strait Pacific Ocean 6 49 N 122 05 E
Basque Provinces Spain 43 00 N 2 30 W
Bass Strait Pacific Ocean 39 20 S 145 30 E
Basse-Terre (capital) France (Guadeloupe) 16 00 N 61 44 W
Basseterre (capital) Saint Kitts and Nevis 17 18 N 62 43 W
Bastia (city) France (Corsica) 42 42 N 9 27 E
Basutoland (former name for Lesotho) Lesotho 29 30 S 28 30 E
Batan Islands Philippines 20 30 N 121 50 E
Bavaria (region; also Bayern) Germany 48 30 N 11 30 E
Beagle Channel Atlantic Ocean 54 53 S 68 10 W
Bear Island (see Bjornoya) Svalbard 74 26 N 19 05 E
Beaufort Sea Arctic Ocean 73 00 N 140 00 W
Bechuanaland (former name for Botswana) Botswana 22 00 S 24 00 E
Beijing (capital) China 39 56 N 116 24 E
Beirut (capital) Lebanon 33 53 N 35 30 E
Bekaa Valley Lebanon 34 00 N 36 05 E
Belau (Palau Islands) Palau 7 30 N 134 30 E
Belep Islands (Iles Belep) New Caledonia 19 45 S 163 40 E
Belfast (city) United Kingdom 54 36 N 5 55 W
Belgian Congo (former name for Democratic Republic of the Congo) Democratic Republic of the Congo 0 00 N 25 00 E
Belgie, Belgique (local name for Belgium) Belgium 50 50 N 4 00 E
Belgrade (capital) Serbia 44 50 N 20 30 E
Belize City Belize 17 30 N 88 12 W
Belle Isle, Strait of Atlantic Ocean 51 35 N 56 30 W
Bellingshausen Sea Southern Ocean 71 00 S 85 00 W
Belmopan (capital) Belize 17 15 N 88 46 W
Belorussia (former name for Belarus) Belarus 53 00 N 28 00 E
Benadir (region; former name of Italian Somaliland) Somalia 4 00 N 46 00 E
Bengal, Bay of Indian Ocean 15 00 N 90 00 E
Berau, Gulf of Pacific Ocean 2 30 S 132 30 E
Bering Island Russia 55 00 N 166 30 E
Bering Sea Pacific Ocean 60 00 N 175 00 W
Bering Strait Pacific Ocean 65 30 N 169 00 W
Berkner Island Antarctica 79 30 S 49 30 W
Berlin (capital) Germany 52 31 N 13 24 E
Berlin, East (former name for eastern sector of Berlin) Germany 52 30 N 13 33 E
Berlin, West (former name for western sector of Berlin) Germany 52 30 N 13 20 E
Bern (capital) Switzerland 46 57 N 7 26 E
Bessarabia (region) Moldova, Romania, Ukraine 47 00 N 28 30 E
Bharat (local name for India) India 20 00 N 77 00 E
Bhopal (city) India 23 16 N 77 24 E
Biafra (region) Nigeria 5 30 N 7 30 E
Big Diomede Island Russia 65 46 N 169 06 W
Bijagos, Arquipelago dos (island group) Guinea-Bissau 11 25 N 16 20 W
Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands 11 35 N 165 23 E
Bilbao (city) Spain 43 15 N 2 58 W
Bioko (island) Equatorial Guinea 3 30 N 8 42 E
Biscay, Bay of Atlantic Ocean 44 00 N 4 00 W
Bishkek (capital) Kyrgyzstan 42 54 N 74 36 E
Bishop Rock United Kingdom 49 52 N 6 27 W
Bismarck Archipelago (island group) Papua New Guinea 5 00 S 150 00 E
Bismarck Sea Pacific Ocean 4 00 S 148 00 E
Bissau (capital) Guinea-Bissau 11 51 N 15 35 W
Bjornoya (Bear Island) Svalbard 74 26 N 19 05 E
Black Forest (region) Germany 48 00 N 8 15 E
Black Rock (island) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 53 39 S 41 48 W
Black Sea Atlantic Ocean 43 00 N 35 00 E
Bloemfontein (judicial capital) South Africa 29 12 S 26 07 E
Bo Hai (gulf) Pacific Ocean 38 00 N 120 00 E
Boa Vista (island) Cape Verde 16 05 N 22 50 W
Bogota (capital) Colombia 4 36 N 74 05 W
Bohemia (region) Czech Republic 50 00 N 14 30 E
Bombay (city; see Mumbai) India 18 58 N 72 50 E
Bonaire (island) Netherlands Antilles 12 10 N 68 15 W
Bonifacio, Strait of Atlantic Ocean 41 01 N 14 00 E
Bonin Islands Japan 27 00 N 142 10 E
Bonn (former capital) Germany 50 44 N 7 05 E
Bophuthatswana (region; enclave) South Africa 26 30 S 25 30 E
Bora-Bora (island) French Polynesia 16 30 S 151 45 W
Bordeaux (city) France 44 50 N 0 34 W
Borneo (island) Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia 0 30 N 114 00 E
Bornholm (island) Denmark 55 10 N 15 00 E
Bosna i Hercegovina (local name for Bosnia and Herzegovina) Bosnia and Herzegovina 44 00 N 18 00 E
Bosnia (political region) Bosnia and Herzegovina 44 00 N 18 00 E
Bosporus (strait) Atlantic Ocean 41 00 N 29 00 E
Bothnia, Gulf of Atlantic Ocean 63 00 N 20 00 E
Bougainville (island) Papua New Guinea 6 00 S 155 00 E
Bougainville Strait Pacific Ocean 6 40 S 156 10 E
Bounty Islands New Zealand 47 43 S 174 00 E
Bourbon Island (former name of Reunion) Reunion 21 06 S 55 36 E
Brasilia (capital) Brazil 15 47 S 47 55 W
Bratislava (capital) Slovakia 48 09 N 17 07 E
Brazzaville (capital) Republic of the Congo 4 16 S 15 17 E
Bridgetown (capital) Barbados 13 06 N 59 37 W
Brisbane (city) Australia 27 28 S 153 02 E
Bristol Bay Pacific Ocean 57 00 N 160 00 W
Bristol Channel Atlantic Ocean 51 18 N 3 30 W
Britain (see Great Britain) United Kingdom 54 00 N 2 00 W
British Bechuanaland (region; former name for northwest South Africa) South Africa 27 30 S 23 30 E
British Central African Protectorate (former name of Nyasaland) Malawi 13 30 S 34 00 E
British East Africa (former name for British possessions in eastern Africa) Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda 1 00 N 38 00 E
British Guiana (former name for Guyana) Guyana 5 00 N 59 00 W
British Honduras (former name for Belize) Belize 17 15 N 88 45 W
British Solomon Islands (former name for Solomon Islands) Solomon Islands 8 00 S 159 00 E
British Somaliland (former name for northern Somalia) Somalia 10 00 N 49 00 E
Brussels (capital) Belgium 50 50 N 4 20 E
Bubiyan (island) Kuwait 29 47 N 48 10 E
Bucharest (capital) Romania 44 26 N 26 06 E
Budapest (capital) Hungary 47 30 N 19 05 E
Buenos Aires (capital) Argentina 34 36 S 58 27 W
Bujumbura (capital) Burundi 3 23 S 29 22 E
Bukovina (region) Romania, Ukraine 48 00 N 26 00 E
Byelarus (local name for Belarus) Belarus 53 00 N 28 00 E
Byelorussia (former name for Belarus) Belarus 53 00 N 28 00 E
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Name Entry in
The World Factbook		 Latitude
(deg min)		 Longitude
(deg min)
Cabinda (province) Angola 5 33 S 12 12 E
Cabo Verde (local name for Cape Verde) Cape Verde 16 00 N 24 00 W
Cabot Strait Atlantic Ocean 47 20 N 59 30 W
Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands 21 56 N 71 58 W
Cairo (capital) Egypt 30 03 N 31 15 E
Calcutta (city) India 22 32 N 88 21 E
Calgary (city) Canada 51 02 N 114 04 W
California, Gulf of Pacific Ocean 28 00 N 112 00 W
Cameroun (local name for Cameroon) Cameroon 6 00 N 12 00 E
Campbell Island New Zealand 52 33 S 169 09 E
Campeche, Bay of Atlantic Ocean 20 00 N 94 00 W
Canal Zone (former name for US possessions in Panama) Panama 9 00 N 79 45 W
Canarias Sea Atlantic Ocean 28 00 N 16 00 W
Canary Islands Spain 28 00 N 15 30 W
Canberra (capital) Australia 35 17 S 149 08 E
Cancun (city) Mexico 21 10 N 86 50 W
Canton (city; now Guangzhou) China 23 06 N 113 16 E
Canton Island (Kanton Island) Kiribati 2 49 S 171 40 W
Cape Juby (region; former name for Southern Morocco) Morocco 27 53 N 12 58 W
Cape Province (region; former name for Northern, Western, and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa) South Africa 31 30 S 22 30 E
Cape Town (legislative capital) South Africa 33 57 S 18 25 E
Cape of Good Hope (cape; also alternate name for Cape Province of South Africa) South Africa 34 15 S 18 20 E
Caracas (capital) Venezuela 10 30 N 66 56 W
Cargados Carajos Shoals Mauritius 16 25 S 59 38 E
Caribbean Sea Atlantic Ocean 15 00 N 73 00 W
Caroline Islands Federated States of Micronesia, Palau 7 30 N 148 00 E
Carpatho-Ukraine (region; former name for Zakarpats'ka oblast') Ukraine 48 22 N 23 32 E
Carpentaria, Gulf of Pacific Ocean 14 00 S 139 00 E
Casablanca (city) Morocco 33 35 N 7 34 W
Castries (capital) Saint Lucia 14 01 N 61 00 W
Catalonia (region) Spain 42 00 N 2 00 E
Cato Island Australia 23 15 S 155 32 E
Caucasus (region) Russia 42 00 N 45 00 E
Cayenne (capital) French Guiana 4 56 N 52 20 W
Celebes (island) Indonesia 2 00 S 121 00 E
Celebes Sea Pacific Ocean 3 00 N 122 00 E
Celtic Sea Atlantic Ocean 51 00 N 6 30 W
Central African Empire (former name for Central African Republic) Central African Republic 7 00 N 21 00 E
Ceram (Seram) Sea Pacific Ocean 2 30 S 129 30 E
Ceska Republika (local name for Czech Republic) Czech Republic 49 45 N 15 30 E
Ceskoslovensko (former local name for Czechoslovakia) Czech Republic, Slovakia 49 00 N 17 30 E
Cetinje (capital city) Montenegro 42 24 N 18 55 E
Ceuta (city) Spain 35 53 N 5 19 W
Ceylon (former name for Sri Lanka) Sri Lanka 7 00 N 81 00 E
Chafarinas, Islas (island) Spain 35 12 N 2 26 W
Chagos Archipelago (Oil Islands) British Indian Ocean Territory 6 00 S 71 30 E
Challenger Deep (Mariana Trench) Pacific Ocean 11 22 N 142 36 E
Channel Islands Guernsey, Jersey 49 20 N 2 20 W
Charlotte Amalie (capital) Virgin Islands 18 21 N 64 56 W
Chatham Islands New Zealand 44 00 S 176 30 W
Chechnya (region; also Chechnia) Russia 43 15 N 45 40 E
Cheju Strait Pacific Ocean 34 00 N 126 30 E
Cheju-do (island) Korea, South 33 20 N 126 30 E
Chengdu (city) China 30 43 N 104 04 E
Chennai (city; also Madras) India 13 04 N 80 16 E
Chesterfield Islands (Iles Chesterfield) New Caledonia 19 52 S 158 15 E
Chihli, Gulf of (see Bo Hai) Pacific Ocean 38 30 N 120 00 E
Chiloe (island) Chile 42 50 S 74 00 W
China, People's Republic of China 35 00 N 105 00 E
China, Republic of Taiwan 23 30 N 121 00 E
Chisinau (capital; also Kishinev) Moldova 47 00 N 28 50 E
Choiseul (island) Solomon Islands 7 05 S 121 00 E
Choson (local name for North Korea) North Korea 40 00 N 127 00 E
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Australia 10 25 S 105 39 E
Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean; also Kiritimati) Kiribati 1 52 N 157 20 W
Chukchi Sea Arctic Ocean 69 00 N 171 00 W
Chuuk Islands (Truk Islands) Federated States of Micronesia 7 25 N 151 47 W
Cilicia (region) Turkey 36 50 N 34 30 E
Ciskei (enclave) South Africa 33 00 S 27 00 E
Citta del Vaticano (local name for Vatican City) Holy See 41 54 N 12 27 E
Cochin China (region) Vietnam 11 00 N 107 00 E
Coco, Isla del (island) Costa Rica 5 32 N 87 04 W
Cocos Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands 12 30 S 96 50 E
Colombo (capital) Sri Lanka 6 56 N 79 51 E
Colon, Archipielago de (Galapagos Islands) Ecuador 0 00 N 90 30 W
Commander Islands (Komandorskiye Ostrova) Russia 55 00 N 167 00 E
Comores (local name for Comoros) Comoros 12 10 S 44 15 E
Con Son (islands) Vietnam 8 43 N 106 36 E
Conakry (capital) Guinea 9 31 N 13 43 W
Confederatio Helvetica (local name for Switzerland) Switzerland 47 00 N 8 00 E
Congo (Brazzaville) (former name for Republic of the Congo) Republic of the Congo 1 00 S 15 00 E
Congo (Leopoldville) (former name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Democratic Republic of the Congo 0 00 N 25 00 E
Constantinople (city; former name for Istanbul) Turkey 41 01 N 28 58 E
Cook Strait Pacific Ocean 41 15 S 174 30 E
Copenhagen (capital) Denmark 55 40 N 12 35 E
Coral Sea Pacific Ocean 15 00 S 150 00 E
Corfu (island) Greece 39 40 N 19 45 E
Corinth (region) Greece 37 56 N 22 56 E
Corisco (island) Equatorial Guinea 0 55 N 9 19 E
Corn Islands (Islas del Maiz) Nicaragua 12 15 N 83 00 W
Corocoro Island Guyana, Venezuela 3 38 N 66 50 W
Corsica (island; also Corse) France 42 00 N 9 00 E
Cosmoledo Group (island group; also Atoll de Cosmoledo) Seychelles 9 43 S 47 35 E
Cotonou (former capital) Benin 6 21 N 2 26 E
Cotopaxi (volcano) Ecuador 0 39 S 78 26 W
Courantyne River Guyana, Suriname 5 57 N 57 06 W
Cozumel (island) Mexico 20 30 N 86 55 W
Crete (island) Greece 35 15 N 24 45 E
Crimea (region) Ukraine 45 00 N 34 00 E
Crimean Peninsula Ukraine 45 00 N 34 00 E
Crooked Island Passage Atlantic Ocean 22 55 N 74 35 W
Crozet Islands (Iles Crozet) French Southern and Antarctic Lands 46 30 S 51 00 E
Cyclades (island group) Greece 37 00 N 25 10 E
Cyrenaica (region) Libya 31 00 N 22 00 E
Czechoslovakia (former name for the entity that subsequently split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia) Czech Republic, Slovakia 49 00 N 18 00 E
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Name Entry in
The World Factbook		 Latitude
(deg min)		 Longitude
(deg min)
D'Entrecasteaux Islands Papua New Guinea 9 30 S 150 40 E
Dagestan (region) Russia 43 00 N 47 00 E
Dahomey (former name for Benin) Benin 9 30 N 2 15 E
Daito Islands Japan 43 00 N 17 00 E
Dakar (capital) Senegal 14 40 N 17 26 W
Dalmatia (region) Croatia 43 00 N 17 00 E
Daman (city; also Damao) India 20 10 N 73 00 E
Damascus (capital) Syria 33 30 N 36 18 E
Danger Islands (see Pukapuka Atoll) Cook Islands 10 53 S 165 49 W
Danish Straits Atlantic Ocean 58 00 N 11 00 E
Danish West Indies (former name for the Virgin Islands) Virgin Islands 18 20 N 64 50 W
Danmark (local name) Denmark 56 00 N 10 00 E
Danzig (city; former name for Gdansk) Poland 54 23 N 18 40 E
Dao Bach Long Vi (island) Vietnam 20 08 N 107 44 E
Dar es Salaam (capital) Tanzania 6 48 S 39 17 E
Dardanelles (strait) Atlantic Ocean 40 15 N 26 25 E
Davis Strait Atlantic Ocean 67 00 N 57 00 W
Dead Sea Israel, Jordan, West Bank 32 30 N 35 30 E
Deception Island Antarctica 62 56 S 60 34 W
Denmark Strait Atlantic Ocean 67 00 N 24 00 W
Desolation Islands (Isles Kerguelen) French Southern and Antarctic Lands 49 30 S 69 30 E
Deutschland (local name for Germany) Germany 51 00 N 9 00 E
Devils Island (Ile du Diable) French Guiana 5 17 N 52 35 W
Devon Island Canada 76 00 N 87 00 W
Dhaka (capital) Bangladesh 23 43 N 90 25 E
Dhivehi Raajje (local name for Maldives) Maldives 3 15 N 73 00 E
Dhofar (region) Oman 17 00 N 54 10 E
Diego Garcia (island) British Indian Ocean Territory 7 20 S 72 25 E
Diego Ramirez (islands) Chile 56 30 S 68 43 W
Dili (capital) Timor-Leste 8 35 S 125 36 E
Dilmun (former name for Bahrain) Bahrain 7 00 N 81 00 E
Diomede Islands Russia (Big Diomede), United States (Little Diomede) 65 47 N 169 00 W
Diu (region) India 20 42 N 70 59 E
Djibouti (capital) Djibouti 11 30 N 43 15 E
Dnieper (river) Belarus, Russia, Ukraine (Dnyapro, Dnepr, Dnipro) 46 30 N 32 18 E
Dniester (river) Moldova, Ukraine (Nistru, Dnister) 46 18 N 30 17 E
Dobruja (region) Bulgaria, Romania 43 30 N 28 00 E
Dodecanese (island group) Greece 36 00 N 27 05 E
Dodoma (city) Tanzania 6 11 S 35 45 E
Doha (capital) Qatar 25 17 N 51 32 E
Donets Basin Russia, Ukraine 48 15 N 38 30 E
Douala (city) Cameroon 4 03 N 9 42 E
Douglas (capital) Man, Isle of 54 09 N 4 28 W
Dover, Strait of Atlantic Ocean 51 00 N 1 30 E
Drake Passage Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean 60 00 S 60 00 W
Druk Yul (local name for Bhutan) Bhutan 27 30 N 90 30 E
Dubai, Dubayy (city) United Arab Emirates 25 18 N 55 18 E
Dublin (capital) Ireland 53 20 N 6 15 W
Duesseldorf (city) Germany 51 13 N 6 47 E
Durban (city) South Africa 29 51 S 31 02 E
Dushanbe (capital) Tajikistan 38 35 N 68 48 E
Dutch Antilles (former name for the Netherlands Antilles) Netherlands Antilles 12 10 N 68 30 W
Dutch East Indies (former name for Indonesia) Indonesia 5 00 S 120 00 E
Dutch Guiana (former name for Suriname) Suriname 4 00 N 56 00 W
Dutch West Indies (former name for the Netherlands Antilles) Netherlands Antilles 12 10 N 68 30 W
Dzungarian Gate (valley) China, Kazakhstan 45 25 N 82 25 E
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Name Entry in
The World Factbook		 Latitude
(deg min)		 Longitude
(deg min)
East China Sea Pacific Ocean 30 00 N 126 00 E
East Frisian Islands Germany 53 44 N 7 25 E
East Germany (German Democratic Republic; former name for eastern portion of Germany) Germany 52 00 N 13 00 E
East Korea Strait (Eastern Channel or Tsushima Strait) Pacific Ocean 34 00 N 129 00 E
East Pakistan (former name for Bangladesh) Bangladesh 24 00 N 90 00 E
East Siberian Sea Arctic Ocean 74 00 N 166 00 E
Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) Chile 27 07 S 109 22 W
Eastern Channel (East Korea Strait or Tsushima Strait) Pacific Ocean 34 00 N 129 00 E
Eastern Samoa (former name for American Samoa) American Samoa 14 20 S 170 00 W
Edinburgh (city) United Kingdom 55 57 N 3 11 W
Eesti (local name for Estonia) Estonia 59 00 N 26 00 E
Eire (local name for Ireland) Ireland 53 00 N 8 00 W
Elba (island) Italy 42 46 N 10 17 E
Elemi Triangle (region) Ethiopia (claimed), Kenya (de facto), Sudan (claimed) 5 00 N 35 30 E
Ellada, Ellas (local name for Greece) Greece 39 00 N 22 00 E
Ellef Ringnes Island Canada 78 00 N 103 00 W
Ellesmere Island Canada 81 00 N 80 00 W
Ellice Islands Tuvalu 8 00 S 178 00 E
Ellsworth Land (region) Antarctica 75 00 S 92 00 W
Elobey, Islas de (island group) Equatorial Guinea 0 59 N 9 33 E
Enderbury Island Kiribati 3 08 S 171 05 W
Enewetak Atoll (Eniwetok Atoll) Marshall Islands 11 30 N 162 15 E
England (region) United Kingdom 52 30 N 1 30 W
English Channel Atlantic Ocean 50 20 N 1 00 W
Eniwetok Atoll (see Enewetak Atoll) Marshall Islands 11 30 N 162 15 E
Eolie, Isole (island group) Italy 38 30 N 15 00 E
Epirus, Northern (region) Albania, Greece 40 00 N 20 30 E
Episkopi Cantonment (capital) Akrotiri, Dhekelia 34 40 N 32 51 E
Ertra (local name for Eritrea) Eritrea 15 00 N 39 00 E
Espana Spain 40 00 N 4 00 W
Essequibo (region; claimed by Venezuela) Guyana 6 59 N 58 23 W
Etorofu (island; also Iturup) Russia (de facto) 44 55 N 147 40 E
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(deg min)
Farquhar Group (island group; also Atoll de Farquhar) Seychelles 10 10 S 51 10 E
Fergana Valley Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan 41 00 N 72 00 E
Fernando Po (island; see Bioko) Equatorial Guinea 3 30 N 8 42 E
Fernando de Noronha (island group) Brazil 3 51 S 32 25 W
Filipinas (local name for the Philippines; also Pilipinas) Philippines 13 00 N 122 00 E
Finland, Gulf of Atlantic Ocean 60 00 N 27 00 E
Fiume (city; former name for Rijeka) Croatia 45 19 N 14 25 E
Florence (city) Italy 43 46 N 11 16 E
Flores (island) Indonesia 8 45 S 121 00 E
Flores Sea Pacific Ocean 7 40 S 119 45 E
Florida, Straits of Atlantic Ocean 25 00 N 79 45 W
Fongafale (largest island of Funafuti) Tuvalu 8 30 S 179 12 E
Former Soviet Union (FSU) Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan    
Formosa (island) Taiwan 23 30 N 121 00 E
Formosa Strait (see Taiwan Strait) Pacific Ocean 24 00 N 119 00 E
Foroyar (local name for Faroe Islands) Faroe Islands 62 00 N 7 00 W
Fort-de-France (capital) Martinique 14 36 N 61 05 W
Frankfurt am Main (city) Germany 50 07 N 8 41 E
Franz Josef Land (island group) Russia 81 00 N 55 00 E
Freetown (capital) Sierra Leone 8 30 N 13 15 W
French Cameroon (former name for Cameroon) Cameroon 6 00 N 12 00 E
French Guinea (former name for Guinea) Guinea 11 00 N 10 00 W
French Indochina (former name for French possessions in southeast Asia) Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam 15 00 N 107 00 E
French Morocco (former name for Morocco) Morocco 32 00 N 5 00 W
French Somaliland (former name for Djibouti) Djibouti 11 30 N 43 00 E
French Sudan (former name for Mali) Mali 17 00 N 4 00 W
French Territory of the Afars and Issas (or FTAI; former name for Djibouti) Djibouti 11 30 N 43 00 E
French Togoland (former name for Togo) Togo 8 00 N 1 10 E
French West Indies (former name for French possessions in the West Indies) Guadeloupe, Martinique 16 30 N 62 00 W
Friendly Islands Tonga 20 00 S 175 00 W
Frisian Islands Denmark, Germany, Netherlands 53 35 N 6 40 E
Frunze (city; former name for Bishkek) Kyrgyzstan 42 54 N 74 36 E
Funafuti (capital, atoll) Tuvalu 8 30 S 179 12 E
Fundy, Bay of Atlantic Ocean 45 00 N 66 00 W
Futuna Islands (Hoorn Islands/Iles de Horne) Wallis and Futuna 14 19 S 178 05 W
Fyn (island) Denmark 55 20 N 10 25 E
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(deg min)
Gaborone (capital) Botswana 24 45 S 25 55 E
Galapagos Islands (Archipielago de Colon) Ecuador 0 00 N 90 30 W
Galicia (region) Poland, Ukraine 49 30 N 23 00 E
Galicia (region) Spain 42 45 N 8 10 E
Galilee (region) Israel 32 54 N 35 20 E
Galleons Passage Atlantic Ocean 11 00 N 60 55 W
Gambier Islands (Iles Gambier) French Polynesia 23 09 S 134 58 W
Gaspar Strait Pacific Ocean 3 00 S 107 00 E
Gdansk (city; formerly Danzig) Poland 54 23 N 18 40 E
Geneva (city) Switzerland 46 12 N 6 10 E
Genoa (city) Italy 44 25 N 8 57 E
George Town (capital) Cayman Islands 19 20 N 81 23 W
George Town (city) Malaysia 5 26 N 100 16 E
George Town (city) The Bahamas 23 30 N 75 46 W
Georgetown (capital) Guyana 6 48 N 58 10 W
Georgetown (city) The Gambia 13 30 N 14 47 W
German Democratic Republic (East Germany; former name for eastern portion of Germany) Germany 52 00 N 13 00 E
German Southwest Africa (former name for Namibia) Namibia 22 00 S 17 00 E
Germany, Federal Republic of Germany 51 00 N 9 00 E
Gibraltar (city, peninsula) Gibraltar 36 11 N 5 22 W
Gibraltar, Strait of Atlantic Ocean 35 57 N 5 36 W
Gidi Pass Egypt 30 13 N 33 09 E
Gilbert Islands Kiribati 1 25 N 173 00 E
Goa (state) India 15 20 N 74 00 E
Gobi (desert) China, Mongolia 42 30 N 107 00 E
Godthab (capital; also Nuuk) Greenland 64 11 N 51 44 W
Golan Heights (region) Syria 33 00 N 35 45 E
Gold Coast (former name for Ghana) Ghana 8 00 N 2 00 W
Golfo San Jorge (gulf) Atlantic Ocean 46 00 S 66 00 W
Golfo San Matias (gulf) Atlantic Ocean 41 30 S 64 00 W
Good Hope, Cape of South Africa 34 24 S 18 30 E
Goteborg (city) Sweden 57 43 N 11 58 E
Gotland (island) Sweden 57 30 N 18 33 E
Gough Island Saint Helena 40 20 S 9 55 W
Graham Land (region) Antarctica 65 00 S 64 00 W
Gran Chaco (region) Argentina, Paraguay 24 00 S 60 00 W
Grand Bahama (island) The Bahamas 26 40 N 78 35 W
Grand Banks (fishing ground) Atlantic Ocean 47 06 N 55 48 W
Grand Cayman (island) Cayman Islands 19 20 N 81 20 W
Grand Turk (capital; also Cockburn Town) Turks and Caicos Islands 21 28 N 71 08 W
Great Australian Bight Indian Ocean 35 00 S 130 00 E
Great Belt (strait; also Store Baelt) Atlantic Ocean 55 30 N 11 00 E
Great Bitter Lake Egypt 30 20 N 32 23 E
Great Britain (island) United Kingdom 54 00 N 2 00 W
Great Channel Indian Ocean 6 25 N 94 20 E
Great Inagua (island) The Bahamas 21 00 N 73 20 W
Great Rift Valley Ethiopia, Kenya 0 30 N 36 00 E
Greater Sunda Islands Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia 2 00 S 110 00 E
Green Islands Papua New Guinea 4 30 S 154 10 E
Greenland Sea Arctic Ocean 79 00 N 5 00 W
Grenadines, Northern (island group) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13 15 N 61 12 W
Grenadines, Southern (island group) Grenada 12 07 N 61 40 W
Grytviken (town; on South Georgia) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 54 15 S 36 45 W
Guadalahara (city) Mexico 20 40 N 103 24 W
Guadalcanal (island) Solomon Islands 9 32 S 160 12 E
Guadalupe, Isla de (island) Mexico 29 11 N 118 17 W
Guangzhou (city; also Canton) China 23 09 N 113 21 E
Guantanamo Bay (US Naval Base) Cuba 20 00 N 75 08 W
Guatemala (capital) Guatemala 14 38 N 90 31 W
Guine-Bissau (local name for Guinea-Bissau) Guinea-Bissau 12 00 N 15 00 W
Guinea Ecuatorial (local name for Equatorial Guinea) Equatorial Guinea 2 00 N 10 00 E
Guinea, Gulf of Atlantic Ocean 3 00 N 2 30 E
Guinee (local name for Guinea) Guinea 11 00 N 10 00 W
Gustavia (capital) Saint Barthelemy 17 53 N 62 51 W
Guyane Francaise (local name for French Guiana) French Guiana 4 00 N 53 00 W
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Name Entry in
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(deg min)		 Longitude
(deg min)
Ha'apai Group (island group) Tonga 19 42 S 174 29 W
Habomai Islands Russia (de facto) 43 30 N 146 10 E
Hadhramaut (region) Yemen 15 00 N 50 00 E
Hagatna (capital; formerly Agana) Guam 13 28 N 144 45 E
Hague, The (seat of government) Netherlands 52 05 N 4 18 E
Haifa (city) Israel 32 50 N 35 00 E
Hainan Dao (island) China 19 00 N 109 30 E
Haiphong (city) Vietnam 20 52 N 106 41 E
Hala'ib Triangle (region) Egypt (claimed), Sudan (de facto) 22 30 N 35 00 E
Halifax (city) Canada 44 39 N 63 36 W
Halmahera (island) Indonesia 1 00 N 128 00 E
Halmahera Sea Pacific Ocean 0 30 S 129 00 E
Hamburg (city) Germany 53 34 N 9 59 E
Hamilton (capital) Bermuda 32 17 N 64 46 W
Han-guk (local name for South Korea South Korea 37 00 N 127 30 E
Hanoi (capital) Vietnam 21 02 N 105 51 E
Harare (capital) Zimbabwe 17 50 S 31 03 E
Harvey Islands (former name for Cook Islands) Cook Islands 21 14 S 159 46 W
Hatay (province) Turkey 36 30 N 36 15 E
Havana (capital) Cuba 23 08 N 82 22 W
Hawaii (island) United States 19 45 N 155 45 W
Hawaiian Islands United States 21 00 N 157 45 W
Hawar (island) Bahrain 25 40 N 50 47 E
Hayastan (local name for Armenia) Armenia 40 00 N 45 00 E
Heard Island Heard Island and McDonald Islands 53 06 S 73 30 E
Hejaz (region) Saudi Arabia 24 30 N 38 30 E
Helsinki (capital) Finland 60 10 N 24 58 E
Herzegovina (political region) Bosnia and Herzegovina 44 00 N 18 00 E
Hiiumaa (island) Estonia 58 50 N 22 30 E
Hispaniola (island) Dominican Republic, Haiti 18 45 N 71 00 W
Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam 10 45 N 106 40 E
Hokkaido (island) Japan 44 00 N 143 00 E
Holland (region) Netherlands 52 30 N 5 45 E
Hong Kong (special administrative region) Hong Kong 22 15 N 114 10 E
Honiara (capital) Solomon Islands 9 26 S 159 57 E
Honshu (island) Japan 36 00 N 138 00 E
Hormuz, Strait of Indian Ocean 26 34 N 56 15 E
Horn of Africa (region) Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia 8 00 N 48 00 E
Horn, Cape (Cabo de Hornos) Chile 55 59 S 67 16 W
Horne, Iles de (island group) Wallis and Futuna 14 19 S 178 05 W
Hrvatska (local name for Croatia) Croatia 45 10 N 15 30 E
Hudson Bay Arctic Ocean 60 00 N 86 00 W
Hudson Strait Arctic Ocean 62 00 N 71 00 W
Hunter Island New Caledonia, Vanuatu 22 24 S 172 06 E
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(deg min)		 Longitude
(deg min)
Iberian Peninsula Portugal, Spain 40 00 N 5 00 W
Iceland Sea Arctic Ocean 68 00 N 20 00 W
Ifni (region; former name of part of Spanish West Africa) Morocco 29 22 N 10 09 W
Inaccessible Island Saint Helena 37 17 S 12 40 W
Indochina (region) Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam 15 00 N 107 00 E
Ingushetia (region) Russia 43 15 N 45 00 E
Inhambane (region) Mozambique 22 30 S 34 30 E
Inini (former name for French Guiana) French Guiana 4 00 N 53 00 W
Inland Sea Japan 34 20 N 133 30 E
Inner Hebrides (islands) United Kingdom 56 30 N 6 20 W
Inner Mongolia (region; also Nei Mongol) China 42 00 N 113 00 E
Ionian Islands Greece 38 30 N 20 30 E
Ionian Sea Atlantic Ocean 38 30 N 18 00 E
Irian Jaya (province) Indonesia 5 00 S 138 00 E
Irish Sea Atlantic Ocean 53 30 N 5 20 W
Iron Gate (river gorge) Romania, Serbia 44 41 N 22 31 E
Iskenderun (region; formerly Alexandretta) Turkey 36 34 N 36 08 E
Islamabad (capital) Pakistan 33 42 N 73 10 E
Island (local name for Iceland) Iceland 65 00 N 18 00 W
Islas Malvinas (island group) Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 51 45 S 59 00 W
Istanbul (city) Turkey 41 01 N 28 58 E
Istrian Peninsula Croatia, Slovenia 45 00 N 14 00 E
Italia (local name for Italy) Italy 42 50 N 12 50 E
Italian East Africa (former name for Italian possessions in eastern Africa) Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia 8 00 N 38 00 E
Italian Somaliland (former name for southern Somalia) Somalia 10 00 N 49 00 E
Ittihad al-Imarat al-Arabiyah (local name for the United Arab Emirates) United Arab Emirates 24 00 N 54 00 E
Iturup (island; see Etorofu) Russia (de facto) 44 55 N 147 40 E
Ityop'iya (local name for Ethiopia) Ethiopia 8 00 N 38 00 E
Ivory Coast (former name for Cote d'Ivoire) Cote d'Ivoire 8 00 N 5 00 W
Iwo Jima (island) Japan 24 47 N 141 20 E
Izmir (region) Turkey 38 25 N 27 10 E
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(deg min)		 Longitude
(deg min)
Jakarta (capital) Indonesia 6 10 S 106 48 E
James Bay Arctic Ocean 54 00 N 80 00 W
Jamestown (capital) Saint Helena 15 56 S 5 44 W
Jammu (city) India 32 42 N 74 52 E
Jammu and Kashmir (region) India, Pakistan 34 00 N 76 00 E
Japan, Sea of Pacific Ocean 40 00 N 135 00 E
Jars, Plain of Laos 19 27 N 103 10 E
Java (island) Indonesia 7 30 S 110 00 E
Java Sea Pacific Ocean 5 00 S 110 00 E
Jerusalem (capital, proclaimed) Israel, West Bank 31 47 N 35 14 E
Jiddah, Jeddah (city) Saudi Arabia 21 30 N 39 12 E
Johannesburg (city) South Africa 26 15 S 28 00 E
Joseph Bonaparte Gulf Pacific Ocean 14 00 S 128 45 E
Juan Fernandez, Islas de (island group) Chile 33 00 S 80 00 W
Juan de Fuca, Strait of Pacific Ocean 48 18 N 124 00 W
Jubal, Strait of Indian Ocean 27 40 N 33 55 E
Judaea (region) Israel, West Bank 31 35 N 35 00 E
Jugoslavia, Jugoslavija (local names for Yugoslavia, a former Balkan federation) Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia 43 00 N 21 00 E
Jutland (region) Denmark 56 00 N 9 15 E
Juventud, Isla de la (Isle of Youth) Cuba 21 40 N 82 50 W
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(deg min)
Kabardino-Balkaria (region) Russia 43 30 N 43 30 E
Kabul (capital) Afghanistan 34 31 N 69 12 E
Kaduna (city) Nigeria 10 33 N 7 27 E
Kailas Range China, India 30 00 N 82 00 E
Kalaallit Nunaat (local name for Greenland) Greenland 72 00 N 40 00 W
Kalahari (desert) Botswana, Namibia 24 30 S 21 00 E
Kalimantan (region) Indonesia 0 00 N 115 00 E
Kaliningrad (region; formerly part of East Prussia) Russia 54 30 N 21 00 E
Kamaran (island) Yemen 15 21 N 42 34 E
Kamchatka Peninsula (Poluostrov Kamchatka) Russia 56 00 N 160 00 E
Kampala (capital) Uganda 0 19 N 32 25 E
Kampuchea (former name for Cambodia) Cambodia 13 00 N 105 00 E
Kane Basin (portion of channel) Arctic Ocean 79 30 N 68 00 W
Kanton Island Kiribati 2 49 S 171 40 W
Kara Sea Arctic Ocean 76 00 N 80 00 E
Karachevo-Cherkessia (region) Russia 43 40 N 41 50 E
Karachi (city) Pakistan 24 51 N 67 03 E
Karafuto (island; former name for southern Sakhalin Island) Russia 50 00 N 143 00 E
Karakoram Pass China, India 35 30 N 77 50 E
Karelia, Kareliya (region) Finland, Russia 63 15 N 30 48 E
Karelian Isthmus Russia 60 25 N 30 00 E
Karimata Strait Pacific Ocean 2 05 S 108 40 E
Kashmir (region) India, Pakistan 34 00 N 76 00 E
Katanga (region) Democratic Republic of the Congo 10 00 S 26 00 E
Kathmandu (capital) Nepal 27 43 N 85 19 E
Kattegat (strait) Atlantic Ocean 57 00 N 11 00 E
Kauai Channel Pacific Ocean 21 45 N 158 50 W
Kazakstan (former name for Kazakhstan) Kazakhstan 48 00 N 68 00 E
Keeling Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands 12 30 S 96 50 E
Kerguelen, Iles (island group) French Southern and Antarctic Lands 49 30 S 69 30 E
Kermadec Islands New Zealand 29 50 S 178 15 W
Kerulen River China, Mongolia 48 48 N 117 00 E
Khabarovsk (city) Russia 48 27 N 135 06 E
Khanka, Lake China, Russia 45 00 N 132 24 E
Khartoum (capital) Sudan 15 36 N 32 32 E
Khios (island) Greece 38 22 N 26 04 E
Khmer Republic (former name for Cambodia) Cambodia 13 00 N 105 00 E
Khuriya Muriya Islands (Kuria Muria Islands) Oman 17 30 N 56 00 E
Khyber Pass Afghanistan, Pakistan 34 05 N 71 10 E
Kibris (Turkish local name for Cyprus) Cyprus 35 00 N 33 00 E
Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee Kanal) Atlantic Ocean 53 53 N 9 08 E
Kiev (city; former name for Kyiv) Ukraine 50 26 N 30 31 E
Kigali (capital) Rwanda 1 57 S 30 04 E
Kingston (capital) Jamaica 18 00 N 76 48 W
Kingston (capital) Norfolk Island 29 03 S 167 58 E
Kingstown (capital) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13 09 N 61 14 W
Kinshasa (capital) Democratic Republic of the Congo 4 18 S 15 18 E
Kipros (Greek local name for Cyprus) Cyprus 35 00 N 33 00 E
Kirghiziya, Kirgizia (former name for Kyrgyzstan) Kyrgyzstan 41 00 N 75 00 E
Kirguizstan (local name for Kyrgyzstan) Kyrgyzstan 41 00 N 75 00 E
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) Kiribati 1 52 N 157 20 W
Kishinev (see Chisinau) Moldova 47 00 N 28 50 E
Kithira Strait Atlantic Ocean 36 00 N 23 00 E
Kobe (city) Japan 34 41 N 135 10 E
Kodiak Island United States 57 49 N 152 23 W
Kola Peninsula (Kol'skiy Poluostrov) Russia 67 20 N 37 00 E
Kolonia (town; former capital; changed to Palikir) Federated States of Micronesia 6 58 N 158 13 E
Korea Bay Pacific Ocean 39 00 N 124 00 E
Korea Strait Pacific Ocean 34 00 N 129 00 E
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of North Korea 40 00 N 127 00 E
Korea, Republic of South Korea 37 00 N 127 30 E
Koror (capital) Palau 7 20 N 134 29 E
Kosovo (region) Kosovo 42 30 N 21 00 E