54 new countries added to Google Maps

Posted on September 17, 2007 at 11:28 am

Today Google has announced a huge update to the number of countries with data on streets, highways, transportation routes, and names of cities and places in Google Maps. This almost doubles the coverage in terms of area for Google Maps! To be exact, according to the press release, there is twice as much map data for Latin America and three time as much coverage for the Continent of Asia.

Here’s the full list of new countries:

Afghanistan, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), Mongolia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Timor-Leste, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam and Yemen.

Even though most of the additional coverage will be limited to major roads and highways and could be out of date, Google plans to add much more detail to the existing countries and to the new countries. Also, all of the new countries are visible when creating your own personal maps/mashups!

Another nice update to the Maps interface is the ability to easily read the map labels when in Hybrid mode.

So if you have family or friends in Asia or Latin America and have been waiting for your country to be added, definitely check it out today!

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2 Responses to “54 new countries added to Google Maps”

Pratheep said on : September 18th, 2007 at 12:12 am

Great information

Pratheep

Donald Katz said on : May 28th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

Bangladesh just had a major update. All roads are there, schools, hospitals, everything. I’m so excited. Do you know when this got updated and if other countries got it at the same time?