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NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 1 23 B 1A Skagerrak 1.1 3 B24 1S North Sea 1.2 4 B23 1N Inner Seas off the West Coast 1.3 18 -- 1K of Scotland Irish Sea and Saint Georges 1.4 19 B22 1R, 1Q Channel Bristol Channel 1.5 20 B21 1C Celtic Sea 1.6 21 A -- -- English Channel 1.7 21 B20 1E Bay of Biscay 1.8 22 B19 1B Canarias Sea 1.9 -- -- -- Gulf of Guinea 1.10 34 C4 1G Caribbean Sea 1.11 27 B6 1X Gulf of Mexico 1.12 26 B5 1M Bay of Fundy 1.13 25 B4 1F Gulf of Saint Lawrence 1.14 24 B3 1T Labrador Sea 1.15 15 A -- 1L Greenland Sea 1.16 5 A1 5G Denmark Strait -- -- B1 1D Lake Erie -- -- -- 9E Lake Huron -- -- -- 9H Lake Michigan -- -- -- 9M Lake Ontario -- -- -- 9N Lake Superior -- -- -- 9S Panama Canal -- -- -- 1J Saint Lawrence Seaway -- -- -- 9L

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN 7 57 D 3A Philippine Sea 7.1 56 D26 3P Taiwan Strait (Formosa 7.2 -- D17 3F Strait) East China Sea (Tung Hai) 7.3 50 D13 3E Yellow Sea (Huang Hai, Hwang 7.4 51 D14 3Y Hai) Bo Hai (Bo Sea, Gulf of 7.5 -- D16 3X Chihli) Liaodong Wan (Liaodong Gulf) 7.6 -- -- -- Inland Sea of Japan (Seto 7.7 53 -- 3N Naikai) Sea of Japan (Japan Sea) 7.8 52 D11 3J Gulf of Tartary 7.9 -- D10 -- Sea of Okhotsk 7.10 54 D8 3Q Bering Sea 7.11 55 D6 5D Anadyrskiy Zaliv (Anadyrskiy 7.12 -- -- 5Y Gulf) Gulf of Alaska 7.13 58 D4 5F Coastal Waters of Southeast 7.14 59 D3 5E Alaska and British Columbia Gulf of California 7.15 60 D2 3L Gulf of Panama 7.16 -- D1 -- Amurskiy Liman -- -- D27 -- Bering Strait -- -- D7 5R Bristol Bay -- -- D5 -- Korea Bay -- -- D15 3R Korea Strait -- -- D12 -- Sakhalinskiy Zaliv -- -- D28 3B Zaliv Shelikhova (Zaliv -- -- D9 3K Shelekhova) Luzon Strait -- -- -- 3I Tatar Strait -- -- -- 3D

PACIFIC OCEAN (see North -- -- -- -- Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean)

SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 4 32 C 2A Rio de la Plata 4.1 33 C1 2R Drake Passage -- -- C5 2D Golfo San Matias -- -- C2 2M Golfo San Jorge -- -- C3 2J Scotia Sea -- -- C6 2S Weddell Sea -- -- C7 2W

SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN 6 49 and 48 D18 plus 3U plus ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS others others South China Sea (Nan Hai) 6.1 49 D18 3U Gulf of Tonkin 6.2 -- D19 3G Gulf of Thailand (Gulf of 6.3 47 D20 3T Siam) Natuna Sea 6.4 -- -- -- Singapore Strait 6.5 46 (b) -- 3Z Sunda Strait 6.6 -- -- -- Java Sea (Jawa Sea) 6.7 48 (n) F13 4J Makassar Strait (Makasar 6.8 48 (m) E1 4M Strait) Bali Sea 6.9 48 (l) F14 4L Flores Sea 6.10 48 (j) F16 4F Sumba Strait 6.11 -- -- -- Savu Sea (Sawu Sea) 6.12 48 (o) F15 6S Timor Sea 6.13 48 (i) F19 6T Joseph Bonaparte Gulf 6.14 -- F20 -- Gulf of Carpentaria 6.15 -- E4 4P Arafura Sea 6.16 48 (h) E3 4U Aru Sea 6.17 -- -- -- Banda Sea 6.18 48 (g) E2 4B Teluk Bone (Gulf of Bone, 6.19 48 (k) F17 4E Gulf of Boni) Ceram Sea (Seram Sea) 6.20 48 (f) D25 4Q Gulf of Berau 6.21 -- -- -- Halmahera Sea 6.22 48 (e) D24 3H Molucca Sea (Molukka Sea, 6.23 48 (c) D23 3M Maluku Sea) Teluk Tomini (Gulf of Tomini) 6.24 48 (d) F18 3V Sulawesi Sea 6.25 -- -- -- Mindanao Sea 6.26 -- -- -- Sulu Sea 6.27 48 (a) D21 3S Celebes Sea -- 48 (b) D22 3C

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN 8 61 E 4A Bismarck Sea 8.1 66 E6 4K Solomon Sea 8.2 65 E7 4S Torres Strait 8.3 -- E5 -- Coastal Waters of Great 8.4 -- -- -- Barrier Reefs Coral Sea 8.5 64 E9 4C Tasman Sea 8.6 63 E10 4T Bass Strait 8.7 62 A F22 6F Amundsen Sea -- -- E12 4D Bellingshausen Sea -- -- E13 4G Cook Strait -- -- E8 -- Ross Sea -- -- E11 4R

* The letters after the numbers are subdivisions, not footnotes.

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Appendix H: Cross-Reference List of Geographic Names

This list indicates where various geographic names--including the location of all United States Foreign Service Posts, alternate names of countries, former names, and political or geographical portions of larger entities--can be found in The World Factbook. Spellings are normally those approved by the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN). Additional information is included in brackets.

Name Entry in The Latitude Longitude World Factbook (deg min)(deg min)

A Abidjan [US Embassy] Cote d'Ivoire 5 19 N 4 02 W Abkhazia [region] Georgia 43 00 N 41 00 E Abu Dhabi [US Embassy] United Arab 24 28 N 54 22 E Emirates Abu Musa [island] Iran 25 52 N 55 03 E Abuja [US Embassy Branch Nigeria 9 12 N 7 11 E Office] Abyssinia Ethiopia 8 00 N 38 00 E Acapulco Mexico 16 51 N 99 55 W Accra [US Embassy] Ghana 5 33 N 0 13 W Adamstown Pitcairn Islands 25 04 S 130 05 W Adana [US Consulate] Turkey 37 01 N 35 18 E Addis Ababa [US Embassy] Ethiopia 9 02 N 38 42 E Adelie Land (Terre Antarctica 66 30 S 139 00 E Adelie) [claimed by France] Aden Yemen 12 46 N 45 01 E Aden, Gulf of Indian Ocean 12 30 N 48 00 E Admiralty Island United States 57 44 N 134 20 W (Alaska) Admiralty Islands Papua New Guinea 2 10 S 147 00 E Adriatic Sea Atlantic Ocean 42 30 N 16 00 E Aegean Islands Greece 38 00 N 25 00 E Aegean Sea Atlantic Ocean 38 30 N 25 00 E Afars and Issas, French Djibouti 11 30 N 43 00 E Territory of the (F.T.A.I.) Agalega Islands Mauritius 10 25 S 56 40 E Agana (see Hagatna) Guam 13 28 N 144 45 E Ajaccio France (Corsica) 41 55 N 8 44 E Akmola (see Astana) Kazakhstan 51 10 N 71 30 E Aland Islands Finland 60 15 N 20 00 E Alaska United States 65 00 N 153 00 W Alaska, Gulf of Pacific Ocean 58 00 N 145 00 W Aldabra Islands (Groupe Seychelles 9 25 S 46 22 E d'Aldabra) Alderney [island] Guernsey 49 43 N 2 12 W Aleutian Islands United States 52 00 N 176 00 W (Alaska) Alexander Archipelago United States 57 00 N 134 00 W (Alaska) Alexander Island Antarctica 71 00 S 70 00 W Alexandria Egypt 31 12 N 29 54 E Algiers [US Embassy] Algeria 36 47 N 2 03 E Alhucemas, Penon de Spain 35 13 N 3 53 W Alma-Ata (see Almaty) Kazakhstan 43 15 N 76 57 E Almaty [US Embassy] Kazakhstan 43 15 N 76 57 E Alofi Niue 19 01 S 169 55 E Alphonse Island Seychelles 7 01 S 52 45 E Amami Strait Pacific Ocean 28 40 N 129 30 E Amindivi Islands India 11 30 N 72 30 E Amirante Isles (Les Seychelles 6 00 S 53 10 E Amirantes) Amman [US Embassy] Jordan 31 57 N 35 56 E Amsterdam [US Consulate Netherlands 52 22 N 4 54 E General] Amsterdam Island (Ile French Southern 37 52 S 77 32 E Amsterdam) and Antarctic Lands Amundsen Sea Pacific Ocean 72 30 S 112 00 W Amur River China, Russia 52 56 N 141 10 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 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 Sudan 15 00 N 30 00 E Anjouan [island] Comoros 12 15 S 44 25 E Ankara [US Embassy] Turkey 39 56 N 32 52 E Annobon [island] Equatorial 1 25 S 5 36 E Guinea Antananarivo [US Madagascar 18 52 S 47 30 E Embassy] Antigua [island] Antigua and 14 34 N 90 44 W Barbuda Antipodes Islands New Zealand 49 41 S 178 43 E Antwerp [European Belgium 51 13 N 4 25 E Logistical Support Office] Aozou Strip Chad 22 00 N 18 00 E Apia [US Embassy] Samoa 13 50 S 171 44 N Aqaba, Gulf of Indian Ocean 29 00 N 34 30 E Aqmola (see Astana) Kazakhstan 51 10 N 71 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, 45 00 N 60 00 E Uzbekistan Argun River China, Russia 53 20 N 121 28 E Ascension Island Saint Helena 7 57 S 14 22 W Ashgabat [US Embassy] Kozakhstan 51 00 N 71 30 E Ashkhabad (see Ashgabat) Turkmenistan 37 57 N 58 23 E Asmara [US Embassy] Eritrea 15 20 N 38 53 E Asmera (see Asmara) Eritrea 15 20 N 38 53 E Assumption Island Seychelles 9 46 S 46 34 E Astana (Akmola) Kazakhstan 51 10 N 71 30 E Asuncion [US Embassy] Paraguay 25 16 S 57 40 W Asuncion Island Northern Mariana 19 40 N 145 24 E Islands Atacama [region] Chile 24 30 S 69 15 W Athens [US Embassy] Greece 37 59 N 23 44 E Attu Island United States 52 55 N 172 57 E Auckland [US Consulate New Zealand 36 52 S 174 46 E General] Auckland Islands New Zealand 51 00 S 166 30 E Australes, Iles (Iles French Polynesia 23 20 S 151 00 W Tubuai) Avarua Cook Islands 21 12 S 159 46 W Axel Heiberg Island Canada 79 30 N 90 00 W Azad Kashmir Pakistan 34 30 N 74 00 E Azores [islands] Portugal 38 30 N 28 00 W Azov, Sea of Atlantic Ocean 49 00 N 36 00 E

B 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 [US Embassy Iraq 33 21 N 44 25 E temporarily suspended; US Interests Section located in Poland's embassy in Baghdad] Baki (see Baku) Azerbaijan 40 23 N 49 51 E Baku [US Embassy] Azerbaijan 40 23 N 49 51 E Baky (see Baku) 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 Atlantic Ocean 40 30 N 2 00 E Sea) 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 42 00 N 23 00 E and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey (European part) 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 [US Embassy] Mali 12 39 N 8 00 W Banaba (Ocean Island) Kiribati 0 52 S 169 35 E Bandar Seri Begawan [US Brunei 4 52 S 114 55 E Embassy] Banda Sea Pacific Ocean 5 00 S 128 00 E Bangkok [US Embassy] Thailand 13 45 N 100 31 E Bangui [US Embassy] Central African 4 22 N 18 35 E Republic Banjul [US Embassy] 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 Vanuatu 14 00 S 167 30 E Banks) Barbuda [island] Antigua and 17 38 N 61 48 W Barbuda Barcelona [US Consulate Spain 41 23 N 2 11 E General] Barents Sea Arctic Ocean 74 00 N 36 00 E Barranquilla 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 Guadeloupe 16 00 N 61 44 W Basseterre Saint Kitts and 17 18 N 62 43 W Nevis Bastia France (Corsica) 42 42 N 9 27 E Basutoland Lesotho 29 30 S 28 30 E Batan Islands Philippines 20 30 N 121 50 E Bavaria (Bayern) Germany 48 30 N 11 30 E Beagle Channel Atlantic Ocean 54 53 S 68 10 W Bear Island (see Svalbard 74 26 N 19 5 E Bjornoya) Beaufort Sea Arctic Ocean 73 00 N 140 00 W Bechuanaland Botswana 22 00 S 24 00 E Beijing [US Embassy] China 39 56 N 116 24 E Beirut [US Embassy] Lebanon 33 53 N 35 30 E Belau (Palau Islands) Palau 7 30 N 134 30 E Belem [US Consular Brazil 1 27 S 48 29 W Agency] Belep Islands (Iles New Caledonia 19 45 S 163 40 E Belep) Belfast [US Consulate United Kingdom 54 35 N 5 55 W General] Belgian Congo Democratic 0 00 N 25 00 E Republic of the Congo Belgrade Serbia and 44 50 N 20 30 E Montenegro Belize City [US Embassy] Belize 17 30 N 88 12 W Belle Isle, Strait of Atlantic Ocean 51 35 N 56 30 W Bellingshausen Sea Pacific Ocean 71 00 S 85 00 W Belmopan Belize 17 15 N 88 46 W Belorussia Belarus 53 00 N 28 00 E Bengal, Bay of Indian Ocean 15 00 N 90 00 E Bering Sea Pacific Ocean 60 00 N 175 00 W Bering Island Russia 55 00 N 166 30 E Bering Strait Pacific Ocean 65 30 N 169 00 W Berkner Island Antarctica 79 30 S 49 30 W Berlin [US Branch Germany 52 31 N 13 24 E Office] Berlin, East Germany 52 30 N 13 33 E Berlin, West Germany 52 30 N 12 20 E Bern [US Embassy] Switzerland 46 57 N 7 26 E Bessarabia [region] Romania, 47 00 N 28 30 E Moldova, Ukraine Bhopal 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 Guinea-Bissau 11 25 N 16 20 W Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands 11 35 N 165 23 E Bilbao Spain 43 15 N 2 58 W Bioko [island] Equatorial 3 30 N 8 42 E Guinea Biscay, Bay of Atlantic Ocean 44 00 N 4 00 W Bishkek [US Embassy] Kyrgyzstan 42 54 N 74 36 E Bishop Rock United Kingdom 49 52 N 6 27 W Bismarck Archipelago Papua New Guinea 5 00 S 150 00 E Bismarck Sea Pacific Ocean 4 00 S 148 00 E Bissau [US Embassy] Guinea-Bissau 11 51 N 15 35 W Bjornoya (Bear Island) Svalbard 74 26 N 19 5 E Black Forest Germany 48 00 N 8 15 E Black Rock South Georgia 53 39 S 41 48 W and the South Sandwich Islands Black Sea Atlantic Ocean 43 00 N 35 00 E Bloemfontein South Africa 29 12 S 26 07 E Boa Vista [island] Cape Verde 16 05 N 22 50 W Bogota [US Embassy] Colombia 4 36 N 74 05 W Bohemia [region] Czech Republic 50 00 N 14 30 E Bombay (see Mumbai) India 18 58 N 72 50 E Bonaire [island] Netherlands 12 10 N 68 15 W Antilles Bonifacio, Strait of Atlantic Ocean 41 01 N 14 00 E Bonin Islands Japan 27 00 N 140 10 E Bonn [US Embassy] Germany 50 44 N 7 05 E Bophuthatswana South Africa 26 30 S 25 30 E Bora-Bora [island] French Polynesia 16 30 S 151 45 W Bordeaux France 44 50 N 0 34 W Borneo [island] Brunei, 0 30 N 114 00 E Indonesia, Malaysia Bornholm [island] Denmark 55 10 N 15 00 E Bosnia Bosnia and 44 00 N 18 00 E Herzegovina 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 Brasilia [US Embassy] Brazil 15 47 S 47 55 W Bratislava [US Embassy] Slovakia 48 09 N 17 07 E Brazzaville [US Embassy] Republic of the 4 16 S 15 17 E Congo Bridgetown [US Embassy] Barbados 13 06 N 59 37 W Brisbane Australia 27 28 S 153 02 E Britain (see Great United Kingdom 54 00 N 2 00 W Britain) British East Africa Kenya, Tanzania, 1 00 N 38 00 E Uganda British Guiana Guyana 5 00 N 59 00 W British Honduras Belize 17 15 N 88 45 W British Solomon Islands Solomon Islands 8 00 S 159 00 E British Somaliland Somalia 10 00 N 49 00 E Brussels [US Embassy, US Belgium 50 50 N 4 20 E Mission to European Union (USEU), US Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (USNATO)] Bubiyan [island] Kuwait 29 47 N 48 10 E Bucharest [US Embassy] Romania 44 26 N 26 06 E Budapest [US Embassy] Hungary 47 30 N 19 05 E Buenos Aires [US Argentina 34 36 S 58 27 W Embassy] Bujumbura [US Embassy] Burundi 3 23 S 29 22 E Burnt Pine Norfolk Island 29 02 S 167 56 E Byelorussia Belarus 53 00 N 28 00 E