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Timor-Leste is the eastern half of the island of Timor, plus Oecusse, a coastal exclave on the western half, surrounded by Indonesia, and the island of Atauro off the north coast. Its municipalities are the units its government, census and elections are organised around, and they fill the country without a gap. This is a map worth knowing on its own terms: a young country with a compact, long and narrow shape that is easy to learn once you have a few anchors.
The municipalities of today, named in their usual English spelling. They run west to east along a long, narrow island: the capital Dili sits on the north coast, with Atauro, a mountainous island of its own, visible just offshore. Most municipalities stretch from the north coast to the south coast, so they read as slices of the country from west to east. Oecusse is the exception, a separate piece of land on the Indonesian side of the island.
Atauro was part of Dili until 2022, when it became the fourteenth municipality. Many maps and lists still show thirteen.
The groups are not an official classification. They are the parts of the country it is usually described in, and a way to learn the map a piece at a time.
Oecusse is the only municipality that does not touch the rest of the country. It lies on the north coast of western Timor, with Indonesia on every land side.
Atauro is the island north of Dili, and the newest municipality. It is small on the map, so tapping the marker beside it counts.
Lautém is the whole eastern end of the island, the one municipality with no neighbour beyond it.
Fourteen: twelve municipalities, the Special Administrative Region of Oecusse-Ambeno, and Atauro, which became a municipality of its own in 2022. Together they cover the whole of the country.
Atauro was part of Dili until 2022. Older maps and datasets, including the usual open boundary files, still draw it inside Dili, so the game cuts it out using the administrative post of the same name.
Not in a way this game relies on. The groups here are the parts of the country they are commonly described in, and they will not match every list you find.
