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Holdings

Archive statistics

Statement of current catalogued entries

Statistical summary for the 22,445 current catalogued WOSSAC Archive Holdings, from 293 territories worldwide.
Note, only items recorded in archive catalogue are presented here, our collection contains a significant amount of materials still undergoing cataloguing; the process of entering further items into the database is an ongoing task. These statistics are generated dynamically from the WOSSAC databases.
Statistics are presented by: Date | Country | Scale

Summary of archive items shown by survey date

See an interactive chart of the dates of all catalogued items

Map listing sorted by: year count
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Summary of archive items shown by territory

See the count from the 293 territories of all catalogued items

Note, country name shown is that used at the time of the original survey.

Map listing sorted by: country count
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Territory Number
Afghanistan 14
Africa 50
Africa, Latin America 1
Albania 3
Algeria 83
America 1
American Virgin Island 1
Angola 28
Angola; Mozambique 1
Antigua; Barbuda 4
Arabia: Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen , Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait 1
Argentina 11
Armenia 1
Asia 26
Atlantic Ocean 2
Australia 227
Australia & NZ 1
Austria 4
Austrialia 1
Bahamas 5
Bahrain 20
Bangladesh 275
Barbados 11
Barents Sea 2
Belgian Congo and Rwanda 1
Belgium 602
Belize 56
Benin 7
Bhutan 223
Bolivia 12
Borneo 3
Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Macedonia; Montenegro; Serbia; Slovenia; Kosovo 2
Botswana 141
Brazil 122
Britain 46
Britain, Denmark, Sweden , Norway 1
British Isles 4
Brunei 6
Bulgaria 9
Burkina Faso 9
Burma 27
Burundi 5
Cameroon 121
Canada 169
Cape Verde 1
Castilla Le 3
Cayman Islands 1
Central Africa 2
Central African Republic 1
Chad 9
Channel Islands 3
Chile 27
China 108
Christmas Island 2
Colombia 15
Congo, DRC 5
Costa Rica 6
Cote d'Ivoire 125
Crete 1
Cyprus 31
Czech Republic 8
Czech Republic; Slovakia 3
Czechoslavakia 12
DRC 24
Democratic Republic of the Congo 10
Denmark 14
Dominica 5
Dominican Republic 48
EU 10
East Timor 6
Ecuador 2
Egypt 115
Eire/United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) 1
El Salvador 8
England 799
England and Wales 1
England; Scotland 1
England; Wales 152
Equatorial Guinea 1
Eritrea 1
Estonia 2
Ethiopia 188
Ethiopia; Somalia 1
Europe 71
Falkland Islands 3
Federated States of Micronesia 1
Fiji 18
Finland 13
Former Yugoslavia 1
France 102
France & Spain 1
Gabon 8
Gambia 1
General 51
Georgia 1
Germany 59
Germany, Poland, Finland, Estonia 1
Ghana 145
Gibraltar 1
Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1
Greece 57
Greece, Turkey 1
Greenland 10
Grenada 3
Guatemala 1
Guinea 8
Gulf of Aden: Yemen; Saudi Arabia; Ethiopia; Somalia 1
Guyana 72
Haiti 12
Holland 3
Honduras 3
Hungary 18
Hungary; India 1
Hungary; Poland 1
Hungary; Russia 1
Hungary; Sweden 1
Hungary; United Kingdom 1
Iceland 3
Iceland, Scotland, Ireland 1
India 101
India; Pakistan 1
Indonesia 842
Indonesia (Java) 1
Indonesia; Malaysia 1
Indonesia; Sri Lanka 1
Iran 45
Iraq 138
Ireland 97
Ireland; Wales 1
Israel 57
Italy 124
Italy, Austria, Switzerland 1
Italy, Greece, Balkens 2
Italy; Austria; Slovenia; Croatia 1
Jamaica 45
Japan 42
Jordan 180
Kazzkhstan, Georgia, Armenia 1
Kenya 175
Kuwait 19
Laos 7
Latin America 1
Lesotho 86
Liberia 9
Libya 32
Lithuania 1
Luxembourg 2
Madagascar 26
Madeira 2
Malasia 1
Malawi 109
Malawi; Mozambique 4
Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia 1
Malaysia 449
Maldives 1
Mali 2
Malta 6
Mauritania 1
Mauritius 19
Middle East 1
Monserrat 1
Morocco 206
Morocco, Algeria, 1
Mozambique 96
Mozambique; Zambia 2
Myanmar 6
Namibia 45
Negara Brunei Darussalam 7
Nepal 103
Netherlands 140
Nevis 1
New Caledonia 1
New Hebrides 9
New Zealand 139
Nicaragua 54
Niger 17
Nigera 4
Nigeria 616
North America 3
North East Africa & the Arabian Shield 1
North Sea 4
North, Central & West Africa & the Middle East 1
Northern Ireland 22
Norway 16
Norway , Sweden 2
Oman 64
Oman/UAE 2
Pacific 1
Pacific Countries 9
Pacific Islands 3
Pakistan 717
Panama 17
Papua New Guinea 84
Paraguay 2
Peru 16
Philippines 91
Pitcairn Island 1
Poland 29
Portugal 27
Puerto Rico 2
Qatar 12
Red Sea: Egypt; Israel; Jordan; Saudi Arabia 1
Republic of Ireland 3
Republic of South Africa 3
Romania 94
Russia 13
Russian Federation 4
Rwanda 8
Rwanda; Burundi 1
Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla 3
Saint Lucia 5
Saint Vincent 1
Salomon Islands 1
Samoa 3
Sao Tome and Principe 4
Sarawak 71
Sardinia 1
Saudi Arabia 272
Saudi Arabia; Egypt; Israel 1
Scandinavia 1
Scotland 135
Senegal 3
Serbia 1
Seychelles 9
Sierra Leone 26
Singapore 1
Slovakia 2
Slovenia 1
Solomon Islands 78
Somalia 108
South Africa 25
South America 13
South Asia 4
South East Asia 4
Southern Africa 3
Spain 146
Spain & Portugal 1
Spain, Portugal, France 1
Spain; Nepal 1
Sri Lanka 52
St Helena 11
St Kitts and Nevis 2
St Lucia 10
St Vincent 6
Sudan 1844
Sultanate of Oman 2
Surinam 5
Swaziland 133
Sweden 8
Sweden & Finland 1
Switzerland 1
Syria 13
Taiwan 2
Tanzania 448
Thailand 159
The Gambia 30
Tobago 1
Togo 2
Tonga 1
Tonga Islands 1
Trinidad 7
Trinidad and Tobago 4
Tunisia 4
Turkey 19
UAE 1
UK 2
USA 1
Uganda 51
Uganda 1
Ukraine 1
United Arab Emirates 176
United Kingdom 543
United Kingdom 2
United Kingdom; Greenland 1
United Kingdom; Ireland 6
United Kingdon 311
United States 293
Uruguay 12
Uzbekistan 1
Vanuatu 6
Venezuela 10
Vietnam 3
Wales 68
West Africa 2
West Indies 7
Western Sahara 1
Western Samoa 4
World 74
Yemen 206
Yemen 1
Yugoslavia 2
Zambia 203
Zimbabwe 124
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Note, the country name may have changed since the survey. Present country names are also recorded for each item in the catalogue if you click through to the details page for each item following a search.

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Summary of map item scales

See the scales of all catalogued maps

Map listing sorted by: scale count
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Mapscale Count
1:75000000 1
1:70000000 2
1:30000000 2
1:25000000 3
1:20000000 4
1:19008000 1
1:15000000 1
1:14000000 1
1:13000000 1
1:12500000 1
1:10000000 36
1:9500000 1
1:8500000 1
1:8000000 4
1:7600000 2
1:7500000 9
1:7000000 4
1:6300000 3
1:6000000 22
1:5555000 1
1:5402000 1
1:5000000 112
1:4400000 1
1:4000000 45
1:3500000 3
1:3300000 2
1:3168000 4
1:3000000 60
1:2857000 1
1:2800000 4
1:2534400 1
1:2500000 53
1:2300000 1
1:2027520 3
1:2000000 138
1:1800000 1
1:1790000 1
1:1750000 1
1:1610000 1
1:1600000 1
1:1584000 1
1:1520640 1
1:1500000 56
1:1425000 1
1:1300000 2
1:1250000 4
1:1210000 2
1:1166666 1
1:1125000 1
1:1095056 1
1:1013760 3
1:1000000 620
1:800000 9
1:778000 1
1:760320 2
1:760000 1
1:750000 32
1:710000 1
1:700000 2
1:670000 1
1:641774 1
1:635000 1
1:633600 1
1:625000 38
1:600000 13
1:575000 5
1:506880 5
1:500000 645
1:420000 1
1:400000 31
1:380160 2
1:380000 1
1:350000 7
1:348480 3
1:344827 1
1:330000 1
1:325000 1
1:320887 1
1:300000 17
1:268750 1
1:255440 1
1:253440 68
1:250000 2131
1:240000 2
1:238095 2
1:200000 472
1:197612 1
1:197570 1
1:190080 2
1:163360 1
1:160000 6
1:157828 1
1:152064 1
1:150000 50
1:141000 1
1:126720 74
1:126000 7
1:125000 117
1:120000 2
1:100100 1
1:100000 1889
1:95000 1
1:80000 2
1:75000 25
1:65000 2
1:63600 1
1:63360 385
1:63000 116
1:62500 39
1:60000 12
1:56000 1
1:55000 2
1:50000 3480
1:40000 104
1:39600 1
1:38100 1
1:36000 1
1:35640 2
1:32000 2
1:31820 1
1:31680 31
1:31250 1
1:30000 53
1:27000 1
1:25344 1
1:25000 783
1:24000 94
1:22000 2
1:21700 1
1:20000 477
1:18750 3
1:18000 2
1:16667 1
1:15840 22
1:15000 2
1:12500 18
1:12000 2
1:11880 1
1:11520 1
1:11000 1
1:10560 11
1:10000 325
1:8000 2
1:6300 1
1:6000 1
1:5280 1
1:5000 150
1:4800 1
1:4200 1
1:4000 1
1:3960 2
1:3600 1
1:3168 1
1:2900 1
1:2500 6
1:2400 2
1:2000 127
1:1600 2
1:1500 2
1:1250 1
1:1200 1
1:1000 45
1:600 1
1:500 17
1:370 3
1:250 5
1:200 4
1:100 3
1:50 2
1:5 2
1:4 9
1:2 3

Other items had no either no recorded scale, or no recorded map sheets.

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