The 1999 CIA World Factbook

Chapter 140

Chapter 1402,795 wordsPublic domain

P Pacific Islands, Trust Marshall 10 00 N 155 00 E Territory of the Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau Pagan [island] Northern Mariana 18 8 N 145 47 E Islands Pago Pago American Samoa 14 16 S 170 42 W Palawan [island] Philippines 9 30 N 118 30 E Palermo Italy 38 07 N 13 21 E Palestine Israel, West 32 00 N 35 15 E Bank Palikir Federated States 6 55 N 158 08 E of Micronesia Palk Strait Indian Ocean 10 00 N 79 45 E Pamirs [mountains] China, 38 00 N 73 00 E Tajikistan Pampas [region] Argentina 35 00 N 63 00 W Panama [US Embassy] Panama 8 58 N 79 32 W Panama Canal Panama 9 00 N 79 45 W Panama, Gulf of Pacific Ocean 8 00 N 79 30 W Panay [island] Philippines 11 15 N 122 30 E Pantelleria, Isola di Italy 36 47 N 12 00 E Papeete French Polynesia 17 32 S 149 34 W Paramaribo [US Embassy] Suriname 5 50 N 55 10 W Parece Vela [island] Japan 20 20 N 136 00 E Paris [US Embassy, US France 48 52 N 2 20 E Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), US Observer Mission to the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)] Pascua, Isla de (Easter Chile 27 07 S 109 22 W Island) Passion, Ile de la Clipperton 10 17 N 109 13 W Island Pashtunistan [region] Afghanistan, 32 00 N 69 00 E Pakistan Peking (see Beijing) China 39 56 N 116 24 E Pelagian Islands (Isole Italy 35 40 N 12 40 E Pelagie) Peleliu (Beliliou) Palau 7 01 N 134 15 E [island] Pemba Island Tanzania 7 31 S 39 25 E Penang Island Malaysia 5 23 N 100 15 E Pentland Firth Atlantic Ocean 58 44 N 3 13 W Perim [island] Yemen 12 39 N 43 25 E Perouse Strait, La Pacific Ocean 44 45 N 142 00 E Persia Iran 32 00 N 53 00 E Persian Gulf Indian Ocean 27 00 N 51 00 E Perth [US Consulate Australia 31 56 S 115 50 E General] Pescadores [islands] Taiwan 23 30 N 119 30 E Peshawar [US Consulate] Pakistan 34 01 N 71 33 E Peter I Island Antarctica 68 48 S 90 35 W Philip Island Norfolk Island 29 08 S 167 57 E Philippine Sea Pacific Ocean 20 00 N 134 00 E Phnom Penh [US Embassy] Cambodia 11 33 N 104 55 E Phoenix Islands Kiribati 3 30 S 172 00 W Pines, Isle of (Isla de Cuba 21 40 N 82 50 W la Juventud) Pleasant Island Nauru 0 32 S 166 55 E Plymouth Montserrat 16 44 N 62 14 W Ponape (Pohnpei) Federated States 6 55 N 158 15 E [island] of Micronesia Ponta Delgada [US Portugal 37 44 N 25 40 W Consulate] Port-au-Prince [US Haiti 18 32 N 72 20 W Embassy] Port Louis [US Embassy] Mauritius 20 10 S 57 30 E Port Moresby [US Papua New Guinea 9 30 S 147 10 E Embassy] Porto Alegre [US Brazil 30 04 S 51 11 W Consulate] Port-of-Spain [US Trinidad and 10 39 N 61 31 W Embassy] Tobago Porto-Novo Benin 6 29 N 2 37 E Portuguese East Africa Mozambique 18 15 S 35 00 E Portuguese Guinea Guinea-Bissau 12 00 N 15 00 W Portuguese Timor (East Indonesia 9 00 S 126 00 E Timor) Port-Vila Vanuatu 17 44 S 168 19 E Poznan Poland 52 25 N 16 55 E Prague [US Embassy] Czech Republic 40 55 N 21 00 E Praia [US Embassy] Cape Verde 14 55 N 23 31 W Pretoria [US Embassy] South Africa 25 45 S 28 10 E Prevlaka peninsula Croatia 42 24 N 18 31 E Pribilof Islands United States 57 00 N 170 00 W Prince Edward Island Canada 46 20 N 63 20 W Prince Edward Islands South Africa 46 35 S 38 00 E Prince Patrick Island Canada 76 30 N 119 00 W Principe [island] Sao Tome and 1 38 N 7 25 E Principe Prussia [region] Germany, Poland, 53 00 N 14 00 E Russia Pukapuka Atoll Cook Islands 10 53 S 165 49 W Pusan [US Consulate] South Korea 35 06 N 129 03 E P'yongyang North Korea 39 01 N 125 45 E

Q Quebec [US Consulate Canada 52 00 N 72 00 W General] Queen Charlotte Islands Canada 53 00 N 132 00 W Queen Elizabeth Islands Canada 78 00 N 95 00 W Queen Maud Land [claimed Antarctica 73 30 S 12 00 E by Norway] Quemoy [island] Taiwan 24 27 N 118 23 E Quito [US Embassy] Ecuador 0 13 S 78 30 W

R Rabat [US Embassy] Morocco 34 02 N 6 51 W Ralik Chain Marshall Islands 8 00 N 167 00 E Rangoon [US Embassy] Burma 16 47 N 96 10 E Ratak Chain Marshall Islands 9 00 N 171 00 E Recife [US Consulate] Brazil 8 03 S 34 54 W Redonda [island] Antigua and 16 55 N 62 19 W Barbuda Red Sea Indian Ocean 20 00 N 38 00 E Revillagigedo Island United States 55 35 N 131 06 W Revillagigedo Islands Mexico 19 00 N 112 45 W Reykjavik [US Embassy] Iceland 19 00 N 111 30 W Rhodes [island] Greece 36 10 N 28 00 E Rhodesia Zimbabwe 20 00 S 30 00 E Rhodesia, Northern Zambia 15 00 S 30 00 E Rhodesia, Southern Zimbabwe 20 00 S 30 00 E Riga [US Embassy] Latvia 56 57 N 24 06 E Rio de Janeiro [US Brazil 22 54 S 43 14 W Consulate General] Rio de Oro Western Sahara 23 45 N 15 45 W Rio Muni Equatorial 1 30 N 10 00 E Guinea Riyadh [US Embassy] Saudi Arabia 24 38 N 46 43 E Road Town British Virgin 18 27 N 64 37 W Islands Robinson Crusoe Island Chile 33 38 S 78 52 W (Mas a Tierra) Rocas, Atol das Brazil 3 51 S 33 49 W Rockall [island] United Kingdom 57 35 N 13 48 W Rodrigues [island] Mauritius 19 42 S 63 25 E Rome [US Embassy, US Italy 41 54 N 12 29 E Mission to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture (FODAG)] Roncador Cay Colombia 13 32 N 80 03 W Roosevelt Island Antarctica 79 30 S 162 00 W Roseau Dominica 15 18 N 61 24 W Ross Dependency [claimed Antarctica 80 00 S 180 00 E by New Zealand] Ross Island Antarctica 81 30 S 175 00 W Ross Sea Antarctica 76 00 S 175 00 W Rota [island] Northern Mariana 14 10 N 145 12 E Islands Rotuma [island] Fiji 12 30 S 177 30 E Ryukyu Islands Japan 26 30 N 128 00 E

S Saba [island] Netherlands 17 38 N 63 10 W Antilles Sabah [state] Malaysia 5 20 N 117 10 E Sable Island Canada 43 55 N 59 50 W Safety Islands (Iles du French Guiana 5 20 N 52 37 W Salut) Sahel Burkina Faso, 15 00 N 8 00 W Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea- Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal Saigon (see Ho Chi Minh Vietnam 10 45 N 106 40 E City) Saint Brandon (Cargados Mauritius 16 25 S 59 38 E Carajos Shoals) Saint Christopher Saint Kitts and 17 20 N 62 45 W [island] Nevis Saint Christopher and Saint Kitts and 17 20 N 62 45 W Nevis Nevis Saint-Denis Reunion 20 52 S 55 28 E Saint George's [US Grenada 12 03 N 61 45 W Embassy] Saint George's Channel Atlantic Ocean 52 00 N 6 00 W Saint Helier Jersey 49 12 N 2 37 W Saint John's Antigua and 17 06 N 61 51 W Barbuda Saint Lawrence, Gulf of Atlantic Ocean 48 00 N 62 00 W Saint Lawrence Island United States 49 30 N 67 00 W Saint Lawrence Seaway Atlantic Ocean 49 15 N 67 00 W Saint Martin [island] Guadeloupe 18 04 N 63 04 W Saint Martin (Sint Netherlands 18 04 N 63 04 W Maarten) Antilles Saint Paul Island Canada 47 12 N 60 09 W Saint Paul Island United States 57 11 N 170 16 W Saint Paul Island (Ile French Southern 38 43 S 77 29 E Saint-Paul) and Antarctic Lands Saint Peter and Saint Brazil 0 23 N 29 23 W Paul Rocks (Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo) Saint Peter Port Guernsey 49 27 N 2 32 W Saint Petersburg [US Russia 59 55 N 30 15 E Consulate General] Saint-Pierre Saint Pierre and 46 46 N 56 11 W Miquelon Saint Thomas [island] Virgin Islands 18 21 N 64 55 W Saint Vincent Passage Atlantic Ocean 13 30 N 61 00 W Saipan [island] Northern Mariana 15 12 N 145 45 E Islands Sakishima Islands Japan 24 30 N 124 00 E Sakhalin Island (Ostrov Russia 51 00 N 143 00 E Sakhalin) Sala y Gomez, Isla Chile 26 28 S 105 00 W Salisbury (see Harare) Zimbabwe 17 50 S 105 00 W Salvador de Bahia [US Brazil 12 59 S 38 31 W Consular Agency] Salzburg Austria 47 48 N 13 02 E Samar [island] Philippines 12 00 N 125 00 E Samaria [region] West Bank 32 15 N 35 10 E Samoa Islands American Samoa, 14 00 S 171 00 W Samoa Samos [island] Greece 37 48 N 26 44 E Sanaa [US Embassy] Yemen 15 21 N 44 12 E San Ambrosio, Isla Chile 26 21 S 79 52 W San Andres y Colombia 13 00 N 81 30 W Providencia, Archipielago San Bernardino Strait Pacific Ocean 12 32 N 124 10 E San Felix, Isla Chile 26 17 S 80 05 W San Jose [US Embassy] Costa Rica 9 56 N 84 05 W San Juan Puerto Rico 18 28 N 66 07 W San Marino San Marino 43 56 N 12 25 E San Salvador [US El Salvador 13 42 N 89 12 W Embassy] Santa Cruz Bolivia 17 48 S 63 10 W Santa Cruz Islands Solomon Islands 11 00 S 166 15 E Santiago [US Embassy] Chile 33 27 S 70 40 W Santo Antao [island] Cape Verde 17 05 N 25 10 W Santo Domingo [US Dominican 18 28 N 69 54 W Embassy] Republic Sao Paulo [US Consulate Brazil 23 32 S 46 37 W General] Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo, Brazil 0 23 N 29 23 W Penedos de [rocks] Sao Tiago [island] Cape Verde 15 05 N 23 40 W Sao Tome [island] Sao Tome and 0 12 N 6 39 E Principe Sapporo [US Consulate Japan 43 03 N 141 21 E General] Sapudi Strait Pacific Ocean 7 05 S 114 10 E Sarajevo [US Embassy] Bosnia and 43 52 N 18 25 E Herzegovina Sarawak [state] Malaysia 2 30 N 113 30 E Sardinia [island] Italy 40 00 N 9 00 E Sargasso Sea Atlantic Ocean 30 00 N 55 00 W Sark [island] Guernsey 49 26 N 2 21 W Saxony [region] Germany 51 00 N 13 00 E Schleswig-Holstein Germany 54 31 N 9 33 E [region] Scopus, Mount Israel, West 31 48 N 35 14 E Bank Scotia Sea Atlantic Ocean 56 00 S 40 00 W Scotland [region] United Kingdom 57 00 N 4 00 W Scott Island Antarctica 67 24 S 179 55 W Senyavin Islands Federated States 6 55 N 158 00 E of Micronesia Seoul [US Embassy] South Korea 37 34 N 127 00 E Serbia Serbia and 43 00 N 21 00 E Montenegro Serrana Bank Colombia 14 25 N 80 16 W Serranilla Bank Colombia 15 51 N 79 46 W Settlement, The Christmas Island 18 44 N 64 19 W Severnaya Zemlya Russia 79 30 N 98 00 E (Northland) [island group] Shaba [region] Democratic 8 00 S 27 00 E Republic of the Congo Shag Island Heard Island and 53 00 S 72 30 E McDonald Islands Shag Rocks South Georgia 53 33 S 42 02 W and the South Sandwich Islands Shanghai [US Consulate China 31 14 N 121 28 E General] Shenyang [US Consulate China 41 48 N 123 27 E General] Shetland Islands United Kingdom 60 30 N 1 30 W Shikoku [island] Japan 33 45 N 133 30 E Shikotan [island] Russia [de 43 47 N 146 45 E facto] Siam Thailand 15 00 N 100 00 E Siberia [region] Russia 60 00 N 100 00 E Sibutu Passage Pacific Ocean 4 50 N 119 35 E Sicily [island] Italy 37 30 N 14 00 E Sicily, Strait of Atlantic Ocean 37 20 N 11 20 E Sidra, Gulf of Atlantic Ocean 31 30 N 18 00 E Sikkim [state] India 27 50 N 88 30 E Sinai Peninsula Egypt 29 30 N 34 00 E Singapore [US Embassy] Singapore 1 17 N 103 51 E Singapore Strait Pacific Ocean 1 15 N 104 00 E Sinkiang (Xinjiang) China 42 00 N 86 00 E Sint Eustatius [island] Netherlands 17 29 N 62 58 W Antilles Sint Maarten [island] Netherlands 18 04 N 63 04 W Antilles Skagerrak [strait] Atlantic Ocean 57 45 N 9 00 E Skopje [US Embassy] The Former 41 59 N 21 26 E Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Society Islands (Iles de French Polynesia 17 00 S 150 00 W la Societe) Socotra [island] Yemen 12 30 N 54 00 E Sofia [US Embassy] Bulgaria 42 41 N 23 19 E Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea 6 00 S 155 00 E northern Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands 8 00 S 159 00 E southern Solomon Sea Pacific Ocean 8 00 S 153 00 E Songkhla Thailand 7 12 N 100 36 E Sound, The (Oresund) Atlantic Ocean 55 50 N 12 40 E South Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean 30 00 S 15 00 W South China Sea Pacific Ocean 10 00 N 113 00 E South Georgia [island] South Georgia 54 15 S 36 45 W and the South Sandwich Islands South Island New Zealand 43 00 S 171 00 E South Korea South Korea 37 00 N 127 30 E South Orkney Islands Antarctica 61 00 S 45 00 W South Ossetia [region] Georgia 42 20 N 44 00 E South Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean 30 00 S 130 00 W South Sandwich Islands South Georgia 57 45 S 26 30 W and the South Sandwich Islands South Shetland Islands Antarctica 62 00 S 59 00 W South Tyrol [region] Italy 46 30 N 10 30 E South Vietnam Vietnam 12 00 N 108 00 E South Yemen (People's Yemen 14 00 N 48 00 E Democratic Republic of Yemen) South-West Africa Namibia 22 00 S 17 00 E Southern Grenadines Grenada 12 20 N 61 30 W Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe 20 00 S 30 00 E Soviet Union Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan Spanish Guinea Equatorial 2 00 N 10 00 E Guinea Spanish Morocco Morocco 32 00 N 7 00 W Spanish North Africa Spain (Ceuta, 35 15 N 4 00 W Islas Chafarinas, Melilla, Penon de Alhucemas, Penon de Velez de la Gomera) Spanish Sahara Western Sahara 24 30 N 13 00 W Spice Islands (Moluccas) Indonesia 2 00 S 28 00 E Spitsbergen [island] Svalbard 78 00 N 20 00 E Stanley Falkland Islands 51 42 S 57 41 W (Islas Malvinas) Stockholm [US Embassy] Sweden 59 20 N 18 03 E Strasbourg [US Consulate France 48 35 N 7 45 E General] Stuttgart Germany 48 46 N 9 11 E Sucre Bolivia 19 02 S 65 17 W Suez Canal Egypt 29 55 N 32 33 E Suez, Gulf of Indian Ocean 28 10 N 33 27 E Sulu Archipelago Philippines 6 00 N 121 00 E Sulu Sea Pacific Ocean 8 00 N 120 00 E Sumatra [island] Indonesia 0 00 N 102 00 E Sumba [island] Indonesia 10 00 S 120 00 E Sunda Islands (Soenda Indonesia, 2 00 S 110 00 E Isles) Malaysia Sunda Strait Indian Ocean 6 00 S 105 45 E Surabaya [US Consulate Indonesia 7 15 S 112 45 E General] Surigao Strait Pacific Ocean 10 15 N 125 23 E Surinam Suriname 4 00 N 56 00 W Suva [US Embassy] Fiji 18 08 S 178 25 E Sverdlovsk (see Russia 56 50 N 60 39 E Yekaterinburg) Swains Island American Samoa 11 3 S 171 15 W Swan Islands Honduras 17 25 S 83 56 W Sydney [US Consulate Australia 33 52 S 151 13 E General]