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The introductions of the country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English.
European Union

European Union

Native names Native names in the official languages:
Deutsch Europäische Union

Die Europäische Union' (EU) ist ein aus 27 europäischen Staaten bestehender Staatenverbund eigener Prägung (sui generis). Die Bevölkerung der EU umfasst derzeit rund 493 Millionen Einwohner. Im EU-Binnenmarkt erwirtschaften die Mitgliedstaaten zusammen das größte Bruttoinlandsprodukt der Welt. Gegenwärtig basiert die Europäische Union auf dem am 1. November 1993 in Kraft getretenen Vertrag über die Europäische Union und bildet die Dachkonstruktion der sogenannten drei „Säulen“ Europäische Gemeinschaften (EG), Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (GASP) sowie Polizeiliche und justizielle Zusammenarbeit in Strafsachen (PJZS).

English European Union - European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 27 democratic member states. The European Union was established under that name in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty). Many aspects of the Union existed before that date through a series of predecessor relationships, dating back to 1951.

Español Unión Europea

La Unión Europea supone la coordinación económica de los pueblos europeos para evitar conflictos económicos internos que puedan volver a llevar a Europa a su debacle. También es una respuesta de los estados del bienestar contra la economía puramente capitalista de otras países. En la actualidad la forman 27 democracias con el 30,3% del PIB mundial (Según Banco Mundial a 2005).

Français Union Européenne

L’Union européenne, née le 7 février 1992, lors de la signature du traité sur l'Union européenne à Maastricht par les douze États membres de la Communauté économique européenne (CEE), est une union intergouvernementale et supranationale composée de 27 États. L'UE est la première puissance économique de la planète avec 30,30 % du PIB mondial (Banque mondiale, Total GDP, 2005).


Short name European Union
Official name European Union
Status Partly quasi-federal union of 27 European countries, founded de-facto in 1957 (present name since 1992), members countries are: ► Austria, ► Belgium, ► Bulgaria, ► Cyprus, ► Czech Republic, ► Denmark, ► Estonia, ► Finland, ► France, ► Germany, ► Greece, ► Hungary, ► Ireland, ► Italy, ► Latvia, ► Lithuania, ► Luxembourg, ► Malta, the ► Netherlands, ► Poland, ► Portugal, ► Romania, ► Slovakia, ► Slovenia, ► Spain, ► Sweden, and the ► United Kingdom.
Location Europe
Capital Brussels, some institutions in Luxembourg and Strasbourg
Population 494,070,000 inhabitants
Area 4,422,773 km²
Major language(s) The official languages of the member states
Major religion(s) Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy etc.
More information European Union, Geography of the European Union, History of the European Union and Politics of the European Union
More images European Union - European Union (Category).

General maps

Location of the European Union
Localisation de l'Union européene
Localización en un mapamundi
Member states of the European Union
États membres de l'Union européene
Países miembros
European Union as a single entity and candidate members
l'Union européene comme une unité unique et membres candidats
La Unión y países candidatos
Member states by form of government

██ presidential republic

██ semi-presidential republic

██ parliamentary republic

██ parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Member states by head of state:

██ monarchy

██ republic

Member states by internal structure:

██ unitary state

██ devolved state

██ federacy

██ federation

Member states by parliamentary houses:

██ unicameral

██ bicameral

European monarchies by way of succesion:

██ equal primogeniture

██ male primogeniture, to be changed to equal primogeniture

██ male primogeniture

██ agnatic primogeniture

Prospective members:

██ current members

██ acceding countries

██ candidate countries

██ potential candidate countries

██ application frozen

██ application rejected by EC

██ accession rejected in a referendum

Neigbour states by freedom (as rated by Freedom House):

██ European Union (all "free")

██ free

██ partly free

██ unfree

██ not rated

National governments' policies on EU membership:

██ member states

██ membership is declared goal

██ membership under discussion

Les pays et territoires d'outre-mer (ou PTOM) sont des dépendances et territoires d'outre-mer des pays membres de l'Union européenne:

██ Union Européenne (UE)

██ Régions ultrapériphériques (RUP)

██ Pays et territoires d'outre-mer (PTOM)

Régions ultrapériphériques
The European Outermost Regions
PIB par habitant de l'Union Européennne
European Union GDP
Union économique et monétaire
European Economic and Monetary Union
Euro Accesion:

██ Eurozone countries

██ EU state joining Eurozone on 1 January 2008

██ EU states bound by the Maastricht Treaty to ultimately join the Eurozone

██ EU states with a derogation on Eurozone participation


States/territories outside the EU using the euro are shown with blue crosshatching.
Relations with the Euro:

██ Eurozone countries

██ European Exchange Rate Mechanism members

██ EU member with currency pegged to the euro

██ EU members with free-floating currencies

██ non-EU members with free-floating currencies

██ non-EU member with currency pegged to the euro

██ countries/territories outside the Eurozone that use the Euro

Relations with the Euro:

██ current Eurozone countries

██ ERM II members

██ EU member with currency pegged to the euro

██ non-Eurozone EU members

██ territories outside the Eurozone using the euro

██ non-EU member with currency pegged to the euro

Produit intérieur brut
Gross domestic product
Fonds européen de développement régional
European Regional Development Fund
Schengen Agreement:

██ Schengen Agreement members

██ Signatories (agreement not yet implemented)

██ Expressed interest in joining

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day the European Union, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day the European Union.

Main gallery: Enlargement of the European Union
Past enlargements
Animated map of the enlargements
The European Communities in 1957
The European Communities in 1973
The European Communities in 1981
The European Communities in 1986
The European Communities in 1990
The European Union in 1995
The European Union in 2004
The European Union in 2007
The European Union in 2010 (Projected)
Original members of the European Coal and Steel Community

Notes and references

General remarks:

  • The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
  • Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
  • Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
  • For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
  • The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
  • The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.

Entries available in the atlas

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Atlas · Historical atlas · Index of the Atlas · Names in native languages

The world and its continents and oceans
General maps of the world · Historical maps of the world · Old maps · Africa · North and South America · Antarctica · Asia · Europe (History, European Union) · Oceania · Oceans

Historical era and themes
Prehistory · Antiquity · Middle Ages · Rise of Islam · Early Modern Age · Early American Societies · Early Asian Societies · Age of Renaissance · Colonialism · 20th Century · World War I · World War II

Countries with undisputed status
Afghanistan · Albania · Algeria · Andorra · Angola · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Armenia · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bahamas · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belarus · Belgium · Belize · Benin · Bhutan · Bolivia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Botswana · Brazil · Brunei · Bulgaria · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Chile · China · Colombia · Comoros · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Congo (Republic) · Costa Rica · Côte d’Ivoire · Croatia · Cuba · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · East Timor · Ecuador · Egypt · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Estonia · Ethiopia · Fiji · Finland · France · Gabon · Gambia · Georgia · Germany · Ghana · Greece · Grenada · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · Hungary · Iceland · India · Indonesia · Iran · Iraq · Ireland · Israel · Italy · Jamaica · Japan · Jordan · Kazakhstan · Kenya · Kiribati · Korea (Democratic People’s Republic) · Korea (Republic) · Kuwait · Kyrgyzstan · Laos · Latvia · Lebanon · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Macedonia (Republic) · Madagascar · Malawi · Malaysia · Maldives · Mali · Malta · Marshall Islands · Mauritania · Mauritius · Mexico · Micronesia (Federated States) · Moldova · Monaco · Mongolia · Montenegro · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Namibia · Nauru · Nepal · The Netherlands · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Niger · Nigeria · Norway · Oman · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Paraguay · Peru · Philippines · Poland · Portugal · Qatar · Romania · Russia · Rwanda · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · San Marino · São Tomé and Príncipe · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Serbia · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Singapore · Slovakia · Slovenia · Solomon Islands · Somalia · South Africa · Spain · Sri Lanka · Sudan · Suriname · Swaziland · Sweden · Switzerland · Syria · Tajikistan · Tanzania · Thailand · Togo · Tonga · Trinidad and Tobago · Tunisia · Turkey · Turkmenistan · Tuvalu · Uganda · Ukraine · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom · United States · Uruguay · Uzbekistan · Vanuatu · Vatican City · Venezuela · Vietnam · Yemen · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Countries with disputed status
Abkhazia · China (Republic)/Taiwan · Kosovo · Nagorno-Karabakh · Northern Cyprus · Palestine · Somaliland · South Ossetia · Tamil Eelam · Transnistria · Western Sahara

Dependencies and other overseas territories
Akrotiri and Dhekelia · Åland · American Samoa · Anguilla · Aruba · Ascension Island · Ashmore and Cartier Islands · Baker Island · Bermuda · Bouvet Island · British Indian Ocean Territory · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Christmas Island · Clipperton Island · Cocos (Keeling) Islands · Cook Islands · Coral Sea Islands · Falkland Islands · Faroe Islands · French Guiana · French Polynesia · French Southern and Antarctic Lands · Gibraltar · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guantanamo Bay · Guernsey · Heard Island and McDonald Islands · Hong Kong · Howland Island · Isle of Man · Jan Mayen · Jarvis Island · Jersey · Johnston Atoll · Kingman Reef · Macau · Martinique · Mayotte · Midway Atoll · Montserrat · Navassa Island · Netherlands Antilles · New Caledonia · Niue · Norfolk Island · Northern Mariana Islands · Palmyra Atoll · Pitcairn Islands · Puerto Rico · Réunion · Saint Helena · Saint-Barthélemy · Saint Martin (France) · Saint-Pierre and Miquelon · South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands · Svalbard · Tokelau · Tristan da Cunha · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands · Wake Island · Wallis and Futuna

Disputed areas
Kashmir · Paracel Islands · Spratly Islands

Subnational autonomous entities
Aceh · Adjara · Adygea · Altai · Andalusia · Aosta Valley · Aragon · Athos · Azores · Balearic Islands · Bashkortostan · Basque Autonomous Community · Bougainville · Brussels · Buryatia · Canary Islands · Catalonia · Chechnya · Chuvashia · Corsica · Crimea · Curaçao · Dagestan · Easter Island · England · Extremadura · Bosnia and Herzegovina (Federation of) · Flanders · Friuli-Venezia Giulia · Gagauzia · Galicia · Galápagos Islands · Gorno-Badakhshan · Guangxi · Ingushetia · Inner Mongolia · Kabardino-Balkaria · Kalmykia · Karachay-Cherkessia · Karakalpakstan · Karelia · Khakassia · Komi · Kurdistan (Iraqi) · Madeira · Mari El · Mindanao · Mordovia · Nakhichevan · Navarre · Nevis · Ningxia · North Ossetia-Alania · Northern Ireland · Quebec · Saint Martin (Netherlands) · Sakha · Sardinia · Scotland · Sicily · Srpska · Tatarstan · Tibet · Trentino-Alto Adige · Tuva · Udmurtia · Vojvodina · Wales · Wallonia · Xinjiang · Zanzibar

Other regions
Basque Country · Burzenland · Kurdistan · Sápmi

Former countries
Austria-Hungary · Byzantine Empire · Caliphate · Czechoslovakia · Frankish Empire · Inca Empire · Macedonian Empire · Prussia · Roman Empire · Soviet Union · Yugoslavia

Themes
Administrative divisions · International organizations · Languages · Religions

Old atlas
Stielers Handatlas 1891

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