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Dear @washingtonpost: Three of the US's aircraft carriers have their home port within 12 miles of the border with #Mexico (in #SanDiego). Entering "waters near #LatinAmerica" is not the story here. Did you mean #SouthAmerica?
#Egypt's New Administrative Capital has rebranded itself as "The New Capital". Officially, #Cairo is no longer the country's capital, though some government bodies still operate from there.
https://egyptianstreets.com/2025/11/09/egypts-new-administrative-capital-officially-renamed-the-new-capital/ #geography #toponymy #worldmap #rename #MiddleEast #Africa @geography @geopolitics
This article receives PolGeoNow's periodic tip of the hat for avoiding the news media standard of calling #Puntland state "semi-autonomous". Puntland as about as autonomous you can get, not even cooperating with #Somalia govt except when it feels like it.
Honored for our #Somalia control #map to have been featured in the second installment of The New Humanitarian's "rebel rule" series on #rebelgovernance in areas outside control of official govts.
#geography #defacto #defactostates #AlShabaab #HornOfAfrica #maps #conflicttracking #controlmap #controlmaps #Africa #politics #security #cartography #AlQaeda #humanitarian @humanitarian @geography @geopolitics @politicalscience
NOW (as of yesterday) #Canada really does say it's planning to recognize #Palestine as an independent country (in Sept., like #France).
#geography #independence #Gaza #WestBank #statehood #defacto #Israel #geopolitics #PalestinianAuthority #diplomacy @geography @geopolitics #MiddleEast #GazaWar #GazaStarving
However, #USA veto at UN Security Council is already the only thing preventing #Palestine from becoming a full member of the #UnitedNations - last time it was considered, #France voted in favor and #UK abstained. https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15670.doc.htm
#independence #defacto #geography #UN #Israel #geopolitics #MiddleEast #statehood
The Security Council today blocked Palestine’s bid to become a full member of the United Nations due to a United States veto on a draft resolution that would have recommended the granting of such status.
#UK plans to recognize #Palestine as independent country if no #Gaza ceasefire by September. If #France also follows through, this would leave #USA as last UN Security Council veto-holder that doesn't consider Palestine a country. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/uk-palestine-state-israel-ceasefire-gaza-unga-keir-starmer-rcna221756
#geography #independence #Israel #MiddleEast #diplomacy #politics @geography @geopolitics
#FactCheck: #Canada has apparently NOT so far followed #France in announcing plans to recognize #Palestine as independent country, despite today's Middle East Monitor headline claiming that. More recent source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/france-macron-palestinian-state-recognition-canada-1.7594392
#geography #Israel #independence #defacto @geography @geopolitics @geopolitics #MiddleEast #diplomacy #politics #MarkCarney #Gaza #WestBank
And here's our article covering what's changed for the #SchengenArea #map over the last five years, with the addition of #Croatia, #Bulgaria, and #Romania creating an uninterrupted land bridge to #Greece for the first time: https://www.polgeonow.com/2025/07/schengen-new-countries-changes-2023-2024-2025-next-future.html
#geography #EuropeanUnion #maps @geography @geopolitics #mapping #EU #Schengen #geopolitics #Europe #SchengenExpansion
Besides the #EU one, we've also updated our popular #SchengenArea #map and explainer - this one for the first time since 2020! Which means THREE new member countries have been added. https://www.polgeonow.com/2020/03/what-is-schengen-list-countries-map.html
#geography #EuropeanUnion #Europe #Schengen #maps #cartography #mapping @geography @geopolitics #world
