Atlas
Each point is a locator for a published case’s geographical context — not a border, capital or claim. Everything on the map is also in the list below, which works without the map.
Legend
- Independence movements
- Political status and decolonisation
- Autonomy and Indigenous self-government
- Historical independence
- Unification and territorial transfer
- Group of nearby locators — select to zoom
Shapes and colours never indicate legitimacy; collections are also named in the list.
Map data and boundary policy
Basemap: Natural Earth 4.1.0 land polygons (world-atlas@2.0.2), Public domain (Natural Earth terms of use). Land polygons only. No political boundaries are drawn by the basemap. Case boundaries appear only from approved, sourced geometry records, each labelled with its layer type, dates and provenance. Map policy.
Loading the interactive map… The full list of cases is below and does not need the map.
Cases on the map
8 cases matching Independence movements. The map shows the same set.
| Case | Collection | Region | Locator | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bougainville | Independence movements | Oceania and the Pacific | Bougainville | |
| Catalonia | Independence movements | Europe | Catalonia | |
| Greenland | Independence movements | Arctic, North America | Greenland | |
| Kurdish self-determination | Independence movements | West Asia | Location context under review | |
| Kurdistan Region of Iraq | Independence movements | West Asia | Kurdistan Region of Iraq | |
| Quebec | Independence movements | North America | Quebec | |
| Scotland | Independence movements | Europe | Scotland | |
| Western Sahara | Political status and decolonisation | North Africa | Western Sahara |