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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.

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Independence movements
Political status and decolonisation
Autonomy and Indigenous self-government
Historical independence
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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.

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Cases on the map

35 cases matching Europe. The map shows the same set.

Cases shown on the atlas, with collection, region and locator description
Case	Collection	Region	Locator
Åland Islands	Independence movements	Europe	Åland Islands
Basque Country	Independence movements	Europe	Basque Country
Bavaria	Independence movements	Europe	Bavaria
Brittany	Independence movements	Europe	Brittany
Catalonia	Independence movements	Europe	Catalonia
Cornwall	Independence movements	Europe	Cornwall
Corsica	Independence movements	Europe	Corsica
Cyprus	Historical independence	Europe	Cyprus
Estonia	Historical independence	Europe	Estonia
Faroe Islands	Independence movements	Europe	Faroe Islands
Finland	Historical independence	Europe	Finland
Flanders	Independence movements	Europe	Flanders
Frisian political-status movements	Independence movements	Europe	Friesland
Galicia	Independence movements	Europe	Galicia
Gibraltar	Independence movements	Europe	Gibraltar
Ireland	Historical independence	Europe	Ireland
Kosovo	Independence movements	Europe	Kosovo
Latvia	Historical independence	Europe	Latvia
Lithuania	Historical independence	Europe	Lithuania
Malta	Historical independence	Europe	Malta
Montenegro	Historical independence	Europe	Montenegro
Northern Cyprus	Independence movements	Europe	Northern Cyprus
Northern Ireland	Independence movements	Europe	Northern Ireland
Norway	Historical independence	Europe	Norway
Occitania	Independence movements	Europe	Occitania
Padania	Independence movements	Europe	Padania (Po Valley region)
Republika Srpska	Independence movements	Europe	Republika Srpska
Sardinia	Independence movements	Europe	Sardinia
Scotland	Independence movements	Europe	Scotland
Sicily	Independence movements	Europe	Sicily