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A map on Page 4A Tuesday mislabeled Armenia and Azerbaijan as Iraq and Iran. Link  Report an error

Staten Island and Manhattan are boroughs of New York City. A Media & Marketing article Tuesday about the rivalry between Time Warner Cable Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. incorrectly said Staten Island is a borough of Manhattan. And: Talks between Zimbabwe and government officials were expected to begin near South Africa’s capital, Pretoria. A World [...]

Barack Obama’s trip to the Middle East included a stop in Jordan, not Lebanon, as an editorial stated Tuesday. The Sun regrets the error.  Report an error

A book reviewer on Sunday of “Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War,” by Patrick J. Buchanan, stated that Hitler wanted the return of the city of Dresden. In fact, it was the Polish city of Danzig Hitler wanted returned to Germany.  Report an error

In “Dirty Smoke Signals” (May), we mistakenly reported that the Black Mesa coal mine is located east of Phoenix. It is roughly 300 miles north.  Report an error

An answer in yesterday’s edition of Isaac Asimov’s Super Quiz was wrong. As every proud Canadian knows, the second-largest country in the world is Canada, not Ukraine. Ukraine’s nice but Canada’s a lot bigger.  Report an error

The map on page 101 misplaced Albuquerque, New Mexico, and omitted Santa Fe. Ponderosa pine seeds were incorrectly described as wingless on page 102; they do have small wings. And: The birds flying across the map of Japan on Page 140 are whooping cranes, native only to North America. Thanks, Jim!  Report an error

A map on page 12 of Section 1 on Thursday located the Golan Heights and erroneously showed an Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon that no longer exists. Link  Report an error

A headline in Saturday ‘s Hampton Roads section (“Norfolk-based sub heads west toward Gulf”) misstated the heading of the submarine Oklahoma City as it left on deployment. The sub is headed east. Link  Report an error

THE Chronicle unreservedly apologises for any offence caused as a result of the story titled ”From Russia with love” in last week’s Entertainer section. The headline on the story about the Kiev Ballet was a sub-editor’s error.  Report an error

Gabon drifted from the west coast of Africa into the centre of the continent on a map accompanying an article about the country’s president (Papa Bongo’s 40 years in power, page 15, May 5). Link  Report an error

A headline and article on Saturday about “Bridge Over the Wadi,” a documentary about a school for Jewish and Arab pupils shown on the PBS World channel on Sunday, misidentified the school’s location. It is in northern Israel, not on the West Bank. The article also referred incorrectly to the West Bank. While it is [...]

Iraq was wrongly labelled as Iran on a map of the Middle East that accompanied a story headlined US claims North Korea helped build Syria reactor plant, page 2, April 25. Link  Report an error

Too cryptic: Although we had former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visiting Assisi (Gorbachev the Christian, page 30, March 20), we relocated the tomb of St Francis of Assisi to Rome. It is, of course, where it always was: in Assisi.  Report an error

Labrang monastery is in Xiahe, a city in northwestern China’s Gansu province. A March 15 article on the global spreading of news of protests in Tibet incorrectly identified Xiahe as part of Tibet. Link  Report an error

Campobello Island is part of New Brunswick. Due to an editing error, it was incorrectly described as being in the United States in a letter to the editor in yesterday’s newspaper. Link  Report an error

This story, published March 3, 2007 was corrected on March 15. Singapore Air is the first airline to put the A380 into commercial service. The original version of this story incorrectly reported Emirates is the first. Also Auckland is in New Zealand, not Australia. Link  Report an error

Mount Baldy, where Leonard Cohen spent time at a Buddhist retreat, is not in Greece, but in the San Gabriel mountains, about 40 miles from Los Angeles (Hail, hail, rock’n’roll, page 14, Film & Music, February 29).  Report an error

Ethiopia: In a Feb. 25 commentary about the Ethiopian military’s actions against civilians, a reference was made to “Somalia’s Darfur region.” Darfur is in Sudan. Also, Ethiopia was misspelled in the headline as Ethiopa. Link  Report an error

Las Vegas is in Nevada, not California (In pictures competition, photograph 3, Statue of Liberty outside the New York casino in Las Vegas, page 95, Weekend, February 2). Link  Report an error

British Columbia was mistakenly named as a US area containing Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont when New England was what was meant (Weatherwatch, page 35, yesterday). Link  Report an error

In the broadcast version of this commentary, Daniel Schorr referred to a human rights activist having trouble delivering a petition to the American Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. According to The Washington Post, which reported the story, the incident occurred in Bahrain, not the United Arab Emirates. Link  Report an error

An article in Business Day on Tuesday about the sentencing of Conrad M. Black, the former media mogul who was convicted of fraud, misspelled the name of the town where he bought his first newspaper. It is Sherbrooke, Quebec — not Sherbooke. The article also misstated, in some editions, the proximity of the federal prison [...]

NO WONDER geography needs more emphasis, not less, in Arkansas schools. We ourselves are an embarrassing case in point: We got our past and current African horrors mixed up in Monday’s editorial. Robert Mugabe is the dictator who’s presided over the ruination of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, rather than Rwanda, formerly the Belgian trusteeship of Ruanda-Urundi, [...]