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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Member Countries Map
A map of the 10 member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, drawn from the roster as it stood in September 2026, in four map styles and free to download at high resolution.
- Members
- 10
- Founded
- 2001
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Roster as of
- September 2026
About the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
The SCO has ten member states covering a contiguous landmass from Belarus to the Pacific — by area, the largest bloc mapped on this site. Six founding members (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) constituted it in Shanghai in 2001, growing out of the 'Shanghai Five' border talks of the 1990s.
India and Pakistan joined together in 2017, Iran in 2023 and Belarus in 2024. Admitting India and Pakistan simultaneously was a deliberate balancing move, and it left the organisation containing three pairs of members with serious bilateral disputes — a fact that shapes what the SCO can actually agree on.
Afghanistan and Mongolia hold observer status and are shown in the second colour; Afghanistan's participation has been frozen since 2021. A further tier of fifteen dialogue partners, including Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Gulf states, is not shaded here.
The same membership in four map styles
Every map on this page shows the identical roster — only the base layer and the projection change. Pick whichever reads best for what you are making, and download it at 3200 pixels wide.
The 10 SCO member countries
- Belarus
- China
- India
- Iran
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Pakistan
- Russia
- Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan
Observer states (2)
Afghanistan, Mongolia
.Colour your own version of this map
The link below opens this exact roster in the world map maker, already shaded. From there you can change the colours, relabel the legend, switch projection, add pins or annotations, and export your own version as PNG or SVG.
Open the SCO map in the editor →Source for the roster: eng.sectsco.org, checked September 2026.
Using these maps
All four downloads are free for personal, classroom, academic and editorial use — a school project, a lecture slide, a blog post, a news graphic. Boundaries come from Natural Earth, which is public domain. The satellite, street and terrain versions are drawn over Esri basemap imagery, credited in the corner of each image; keep that credit visible when you reuse them.
Please keep the "September 2026" date on the map. Membership changes, and a membership map without a date is the single most common way an out-of-date roster ends up being republished as current.
Questions about SCO membership
How many countries are in the SCO?
Ten full members as of September 2026: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, Pakistan, Iran and Belarus.
Is India a member of the SCO?
Yes, since June 2017, admitted at the same summit as Pakistan. India held the rotating chairship in 2023.
When did Belarus join the SCO?
In July 2024, at the Astana summit, becoming the tenth member and the first outside Asia.
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