Countries recognizing the Republic of Kosovo in green, highlighting recent additions. Disputed recognitions in yellow. Kosovo in magenta. Map by Evan Centanni, modified from public domain graphic (source). |
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Map Update: Kosovo Recognized by 3 More Countries in 2014 (106/193)
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
War in Ukraine: Detailed Map of Rebel Control in Donetsk & Luhansk (Premium)
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Since our last Ukraine update, pro-Russian rebels have captured much more territory in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but also lost some of their early strongholds.
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Map: Yemen Joins WTO
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Member and observer states of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Map by Evan Centanni, starting from public domain blank map (license: CC BY-NC-SA). |
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Syria Civil War: Territorial Control Map #12.3 (Premium)
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This is the Syria update you've been waiting for: our new map includes not only cities, but a full illustration of territorial control for each faction in the civil war. Also includes many updates to the situation since the last edition in April.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Iraq's New War: Detailed Map of ISIS Takeover (Premium)
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Since our last Iraq map update
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
World Cup 2014: Which Countries Are (and Aren't) Members of FIFA?
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The six continental confederations of national football teams associated with FIFA. Not all confederation members are individually members of FIFA. Map by Evan Centanni, based on work by EOZyo (source). |
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Sunday, June 8, 2014
Palestine: West Bank and Gaza Reunited Under Transitional Government
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By Evan Centanni
Unity Government
The partially-unrecognized State of Palestine is not only divided between Palestinian and Israel control - even the Palestinian-administered areas have been governed separately for several years now. However, this month rival parties Hamas and Fatah have finally come together to reunite the West Bank and Gaza Strip under a single Palestinian government.
Divided Country
The rift in control opened up in 2007, after religious militant group Hamas won a majority of seats in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. Hamas and Fatah, the current ruling party at the time, failed to form a stable unity government then, and the conflict between them escalated into a short civil war in the Gaza Strip.
See Also: Is Palestine Really a Country?
Control zones based on the Oslo Accords. Area A: Palestinian control; Area B: mixed Israeli-Palestinian control; Area C: full Israeli control. Map by Evan Centanni (sources: Natural Earth, B'Tselem, U.N. OCHA oPt). |
By Evan Centanni
Unity Government
The partially-unrecognized State of Palestine is not only divided between Palestinian and Israel control - even the Palestinian-administered areas have been governed separately for several years now. However, this month rival parties Hamas and Fatah have finally come together to reunite the West Bank and Gaza Strip under a single Palestinian government.
Divided Country
The rift in control opened up in 2007, after religious militant group Hamas won a majority of seats in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. Hamas and Fatah, the current ruling party at the time, failed to form a stable unity government then, and the conflict between them escalated into a short civil war in the Gaza Strip.
See Also: Is Palestine Really a Country?
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Iraq: Updated Map of ISIS Control (Premium)
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This is our first update to January's map of Al Qaeda control in Iraq. The map has been expanded to show much more detail of the ongoing campaign of
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
Mayotte Enters European Union
"Outermost regions" are officially part of the European Union; "overseas countries and territories" are not part of the EU itself, but have special relations with it because of their connections to member countries. New outermost region Mayotte is located in southeastern Africa. Map from Wikimedia Commons © Alexrk2 (CC BY-SA)
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EU Expands to Include Mayotte
You probably heard about Croatia joining the European Union last year, but did you know the EU expanded further this year...in Africa? The French overseas department of Mayotte, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean northwest of Madagascar, became officially part of the EU on January 1.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Syria Civil War Map: April 2014 (#12.2) (Premium)
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PolGeoNow's popular Syria civil war control maps are back! Here's the second of our member-exclusive premium updates.
Developments since our previous Syria map update in January include advances by both the government and the rebels, as well as changes in territorial control for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Ukraine Map #3: Separatist Control in the East (Premium)
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
ICYMI: The Gambia's Withdrawal from the Commonwealth
"In case you missed it" - this is an article featuring news we couldn't cover when it first broke, but that we thought you might still want to know about. Those who read our article on the year 2013 in political geography changes already heard about the Gambia's withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Nations - now here's the full story.
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The Commonwealth of Nations. Current members in dark blue, former members in lavender. Map by Evan Centanni, modified from public domain blank map. |
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Update: Ukraine Control Overview Map (Premium)
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Crimea Joins Russia, Gives Up Independence, Becomes Disputed Territory
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Russia Annexes Crimea
The Crimean peninsula, which declared independence from Ukraine ten days ago as the Republic of Crimea, has now been absorbed into Russia. This was part of the plan all along - the claimed Republic of Crimea had requested to join Russia at the same time that it declared independence.
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The claimed Republic of Crimea which has now joined Russia (click to see full-sized map). By Evan Centanni, based on this blank map.
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Russia Annexes Crimea
The Crimean peninsula, which declared independence from Ukraine ten days ago as the Republic of Crimea, has now been absorbed into Russia. This was part of the plan all along - the claimed Republic of Crimea had requested to join Russia at the same time that it declared independence.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Premium Map Report: Russian Control of Crimea
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Crimea Declares Independence: Is It Really a Country?
On Monday, two regional governments on the Crimean Peninsula controversially declared their independence from Ukraine as the new Republic of Crimea. While the declaration has been rejected by most of the world community, and Crimea hopes to swiftly unite with Russia, for now it might be considered a de facto sovereign state. Read on for details.
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By Evan Centanni
Declaration of Independence
Following Ukraine's revolution, the explosion of pro-Russian protests in the east, and the subsequent occupation of the Crimean peninsula by Russian forces (see our premium report, Ukraine Map: Occupations, Autonomy, & Invasion), a new independent country has been declared on the coast of the Black Sea.
The Republic of Crimea. Map by Evan Centanni, based on this blank map. |
Declaration of Independence
Following Ukraine's revolution, the explosion of pro-Russian protests in the east, and the subsequent occupation of the Crimean peninsula by Russian forces (see our premium report, Ukraine Map: Occupations, Autonomy, & Invasion), a new independent country has been declared on the coast of the Black Sea.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Madagascar Un-Suspended from African Union
The African Union as of March 2014. Map by Evan Centanni, from this blank map by Eric Gaba. License: CC BY-SA |
Saturday, March 8, 2014
How Sharply Divided is Ukraine, Really? Honest Maps of Language and Elections
There's no question that Ukraine's current crisis arose from major political divisions in the country, and it's true that language is an issue. But some online news websites have sensationalized and exaggerated these divisions through misleading maps. PolGeoNow offers a pair of maps that better communicate the blurriness of the supposed lines between western and eastern Ukraine.
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Misleading Ukraine Maps
In January, the Washington Post's Max Fisher wrote a popular map-illustrated blog post about the political and linguistic divisions fueling Ukraine's crisis, then at the height of its pro-Europe protest phase. Later, CNN followed the Post's lead and published a similar set of maps. However, the maps in both articles are designed in a way that makes the divisions look much sharper and more black-and-white than they really are. There's not, as Fisher preposterously claims, "an actual, physical line" splitting Ukraine in half. Instead, there's a gradual shading of mixed populations whose ethnic identities and voting history don't always correlate to the country's current political divisions.
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A more honest map of Ukraine's 2010 presidential election. By Evan Centanni.
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Article by Evan Centanni
Misleading Ukraine Maps
In January, the Washington Post's Max Fisher wrote a popular map-illustrated blog post about the political and linguistic divisions fueling Ukraine's crisis, then at the height of its pro-Europe protest phase. Later, CNN followed the Post's lead and published a similar set of maps. However, the maps in both articles are designed in a way that makes the divisions look much sharper and more black-and-white than they really are. There's not, as Fisher preposterously claims, "an actual, physical line" splitting Ukraine in half. Instead, there's a gradual shading of mixed populations whose ethnic identities and voting history don't always correlate to the country's current political divisions.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Ukraine Map: Occupations, Autonomy, & Invasion (Premium)
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
South Sudan War Map: Current Rebel Control (Update #4) (Premium)
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