THE WORLD IN 1945

Greenland
Alaska (Denmark)
(U.S.A.)

NORWAY

ICELAND SWEDEN
CANADA
FINLAND
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
UNITED
KINGDOM
DENMARK

NEWFOUNDLAND (U.K.) IRELAND NETHERLANDS BYELORUSSIAN SSR

GERMANY POLAND
BELGIUM MONGOLIA
CZECHOSLOVAKIA UKRAINIAN SSR
LUXEMBOURG
SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA HUNGARY
Saint Pierre ROMANIA
and Miquelon (Fr.) FRANCE
YUGOSLAVIA KOREA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BULGARIA JAPAN
ITALY
PORTUGAL ALBANIA
SPAIN TURKEY CHINA
GREECE
Gibraltar ( U.K.) Cyprus SYRIA
SPANISH MOROCCO TUNISIA (U.K.)
Bermuda (U.K.) (Fr.) Malta (U.K.) IRAN AFGHANISTAN
MOROCCO LEBANON IRAQ
SIKKIM
Ifni ( Sp.) (Fr.) Kuwait (U.K.) (U.K.) BHUTAN (U.K.)
PALESTINE TRANS-
SOUTH MOROCCO (Sp.) (U.K.) JORDAN NEPAL
ALGERIA (Fr.) LIBYA (Fr./U.K.) (U.K.) Bahrain
Hawaii MEXICO Bahamas (U.K.) SPANISH EGYPT (U.K.)
CUBA
(U.S.A.) Turks and Caicos Islands (U.K.) SAHARA TRUCIAL INDIA (U.K.) Hong Kong (U.K.)
SAUDI Qatar STATES BURMA
Cayman DOMINICAN REPUBLIC LAOS Macau Mariana
Islands Puerto Rico (U.S) ARABIA (U.K.) (U.K.) Diu (Port.) (U.K.) (Port.) Islands
HAITI British Virgin Is. Leeward Islands Cape Verde (Fr.)
BRITISH HONDURAS (U.K.)
Damão
St. Martin (Neth.) Islands (Port.) MUSCAT (Port.) VIET-NAM
HONDURAS U.S. Virgin Is. Saba (Neth.)
FRENCH ERITREA (U.K.)
AND OMAN
Jamaica St. Eustatius (Neth.) Antigua ADEN PHILIPPINES (U.S.A.) TRUST TERRITORY OF
FRENCH WEST AFRICA EQUATORIAL (U.K.) THAILAND Guam
GUATEMALA (U.K.) St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Montserrat
AFRICA YEMEN (U.K.) Goa FRENCH ESTABL. (U.S.A.) THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
EL SALVADOR Aruba (Neth.) Dominica Guadeloupe (Fr.) GAMBIA (U.K.) (Port.) IN INDIA CAMBODIA (Fr.)
Curaçao (Neth.) Martinique (Fr.) ANGLO-EGYPTIAN (U.S.A.) Marshall
NICARAGUA St. Lucia TOGOLAND (Fr.) CAMEROONS (U.K.) BRITISH Socotra (U.K.)
Bonaire (Neth.)
St. Vincent PORT. GUINEA SUDAN FRENCH Islands
COSTA RICA Grenada Barbados (U.K.) NIGERIA SOMALILAND SOMALILAND
GOLD
VENEZUELA Trinidad and Tobago (U.K.) COAST (U.K.) CEYLON
SURINAM (Neth.)
Windward Islands ETHIOPIA MALAY N. BORNEO
PANAMA (U.K.) SIERRA LEONE (U.K.) (U.K.) STATES (U.K.) Caroline
CAMEROONS
Christmas (U.K.) Pacific Ocean FRENCH GUIANA (U.K.)
LIBERIA (Fr.) (U.K.)
Brunei
(U.K.)
Islands
COLOMBIA TOGOLAND Fernando Póo ITALIAN Maldive
RUANDA- UGANDA SOMALILAND SARAWAK
(U.K.) Islands (U.K.) (U.K.) Phoenix Islands (U.K.)
RIO MUNI (Sp.) URUNDI (U.K.) KENYA Nauru
BRITISH GUIANA
São Tomé and Príncipe
Singapore TRUST TERRITORY (Austr.)
(Belg.) (U.K.) (U.K.)
ECUADOR (Port.) OF NEW GUINEA Gilbert
Seychelles (U.K.) (Austr.)
BELGIAN and Elice Tokelau Islands (N.Z.)
Cabinda CONGO Is. (U.K.)
(Port.) TANGANYIKA Zanzibar (U.K.) NETHERLANDS INDIES
Ascencion (U.K.) (U.K.) Western
BRAZIL Samoa (N.Z.)
Port. Timor Solomon
Marquesas PERU ANGOLA Comoro Arch. (Fr.) Islands (U.K.)
Christmas American
(Port.) NORTH. NYASALAND PAPUA Wallis and Samoa
RHODESIA (U.K.) (U.K.)
St. Helena (U.K.) Cocos (Austr.) Futuna Islands
FRENCH ESTABLISHMENTS IN OCEANA
BOLIVIA
(U.K.)
SOUTH.
Indian Ocean (Keeling) (Fr.)
RHODESIA Mauritius(U.K.) Is. (U.K.)
MADAGASCAR New Hebrides
(U.K.) (Fr.) (Fr./U.K.)
Society Arch. MOZAMBIQUE Réunion (Fr.)
Tuamotu Arch. PARAGUAY SOUTH BECHUANALAND
Niue (N.Z.)
Atlantic Ocean WEST (U.K.) (Port.) FIJI
AFRICA Islands Tonga
CHILE (S.A.) SWAZILAND ( U.K. ) New Caledonia (U.K.) (U.K.)
Cook AUSTRALIA
Islands (N.Z.) Gambier Islands (Fr.)
UNION OF BASUTOLAND (U.K.)
Austral SOUTH
Islands AFRICA
Pitcairn
(U.K.) ARGENTINA
URUGUAY Tristan da Cunha (U.K.)

Gough (U.K.)

The founding Member States of the United Nations

United Nations founding Members which celebrated their independence after the creation of the United Nations
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (U.K.)*
Territories administered under a League of Nations Mandate South Georgia (U.K.) NEW ZEALAND
The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do
States with a special treaty relationship with a United Nations Member State not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the
Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country,
territory, city or any area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation
Territories which by 1949 were under the United Nations Trusteeship System of its frontiers or boundaries.

*A dispute exists between the Governments of Argentina and the United

Non-Member States of the United Nations Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning sovereignty over
the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

Other dependent territories

** Dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and
Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. The final status of Jammu and
The initials in parentheses refer to the administering Power or the Power involved in a special treaty relationship Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties.

Map No. 4135 Rev. 3 UNITED NATIONS Department of Field Support

May 2010 Cartographic Section