Admin 0 – Breakaway, Disputed Areas

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Kashmir to the Elemi Triangle, ~100 features

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Adjusted to taste which boundaries are shown, hidden, and how they are rendered using the fclass_* properties paired with the POV worldview polygons above.

Download breakaway and disputed areas (210.17 KB) version 5.1.1
Download with scale ranks (169.51 KB) version 5.1.1
Download boundary lines (60.53 KB) version 5.1.0
Download Antarctic claims (64.3 KB) version 4.0.0
Download Antarctic claim limit lines (23.59 KB) version 5.0.0

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About

Disputed areas and breakaway regions From Kashmir to the Elemi Triangle, Northern Cyprus to Western Sahara.

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) maintains a list of disputed areas and boundaries as part of their World Factbook.

(below) Antarctica claims were added in version 2.0.0.

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Issues

Some disputed areas that are small could be better symbolized with a point symbol.

Version History

The master changelog is available on Github »

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