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.

Historical period

Use negative years for BCE.

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

224 cases. The map shows the same set.

Cases shown on the atlas, with collection, region and locator description
CaseCollectionRegionMap
Democratic Republic of the Congo Historical independence Central Africa
Djibouti Historical independence East Africa and the Horn
Donetsk and Luhansk Independence movements Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas
East Turkestan / Uyghur independence movement Independence movements East Asia
Eritrea Historical independence East Africa and the Horn
Espiritu Santo separatist episode Historical independence Oceania and the Pacific
Estonia Historical independence Europe
Falkland Islands / Malvinas political status Political status and decolonisation South Atlantic
Faroe Islands Independence movements Europe
Finland Historical independence Europe
Flanders Independence movements Europe
French Guiana independence and status Independence movements Latin America
Frisian political-status movements Independence movements Europe
Galicia Independence movements Europe
Ghana Historical independence West Africa
Gibraltar Independence movements Europe
Gilgit-Baltistan political-status movements Political status and decolonisation South Asia
Gorkhaland Independence movements South Asia
Greenland Independence movements Arctic, North America
Guadeloupe independence Independence movements Caribbean
Guåhan / Guam self-determination Political status and decolonisation Oceania and the Pacific
Guinea-Bissau Historical independence West Africa
Guyana Historical independence Latin America
Haiti Historical independence Caribbean
Haudenosaunee sovereignty Autonomy and Indigenous self-government North America
Hawaiian sovereignty Independence movements North America
Hmong self-determination projects Independence movements East Asia
Hong Kong self-determination and independence advocacy Political status and decolonisation East Asia
India Historical independence South Asia
Indonesia Historical independence Southeast Asia