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11 mar 2024 · At present, NATO has 32 member countries. These countries, called NATO Allies, are sovereign states that come together through NATO to discuss political and security issues and make collective decisions by consensus. NATO was created by 12 countries from Europe and North America on 4 April 1949.
Maps of Cold War era (1945-1991) alliances, Post-Cold War geopolitics, boundaries, and chokepoints. Includes 2024 NATO member states.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1] .
This map is part of a series of 9 animated maps showing the history of The Cold War and Confrontation between East and West 1947-1991. Given the threat of a Soviet military presence, Western Europe and the United States decided to create a military alliance.
27 lip 2024 · A map shows the landscape of NATO's Nordic members with Norway, Sweden, and Finland labeled in the north, along with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany around the Baltic Sea.
In the map above you can see all the 29 NATO members, including Finland which joined in April, 2023. In the map of Europe below , you can see the countries with and without NATO membership before Montenegro joined in 2017, North Macedonia in 2020, and most recently, Finland joined in April 2023.
18 maj 2022 · Finland and Sweden have formally submitted applications to join NATO, the world’s most powerful military alliance, in a move that will redraw the geopolitical map of northern Europe.
