, the

International Hydrographic Organization The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is an intergovernmental organisation representing hydrography. , the IHO comprised 98 Member States. A principal aim of the IHO is to ensure that the world's seas, oceans and navigable waters a ...

(IHO) comprised 98 Member States, two of which are suspended because of their lapsed annual financial contribution. The IHO identifies its representative member organisations as the respective national

hydrographic office A hydrographic office is an organization which is devoted to acquiring and publishing hydrographic information. Historically, the main tasks of hydrographic offices were the conduction of hydrographic surveys and the publication of nautical cha ...

(s). These organisations may themselves be part of wider national maritime or other administrations covering a larger range of tasks – such as the national organisations for transport, maritime regulation, environment, defence or

oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamic ...

. For example, in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

and

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

the hydrographic offices are sub-organisations of the country's national geodata organisation; in the UK and

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

, they are part of the Ministry of Defence; in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

the hydrographic Office is part of the department of transport. The up to date list of IHO Member States, their representative organisations and contact details are maintained in the IHO Yearbook - available at www.iho.int

List

International Hydrographic Organization countries

* – Albanian Hydrographic Service * – Hydrographic Office of the

Algerian National Navy , image = Algerian Naval badge.svg , image_size = 220px , caption = Algerian Naval badge , dates = 1516–18271963–present , country ...

* – Instituto Hidrografico e de Signalização Maritíma de Angola (IHSMA) * –

Argentine Naval Hydrographic Service The Argentine Hydrographic Service ( es, Servicio de Hidrografía Naval, abbreviated SHN) is the branch of the Ministry of Defense responsible for providing hydrographic services. Background Created on January 1, 1879, as ''Oficina Central de Hid ...

* –

Australian Hydrographic Service The Australian Hydrographic Service (formerly known as the Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service) is the Australian Commonwealth Government agency responsible for providing hydrographic services that meet Australia's obligations under the SO ...

* – Bahraini Hydrographic Survey Directorate * – Bangladeshi Directorate of Hydrography * – Flemish Hydrography * – Brazilian Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation * – Brunei Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation * – Hydrographical Service at Ministry of Defense * – Autonomous Port of

Douala Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital. It is also the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region (Cameroon), Littoral Region. Home to Central Africa's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Ai ...

* -

Canadian Hydrographic Service ''Retired Canadian Hydrographic Service logo or crest'' The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) is part of the federal department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and is Canada's authoritative hydrographic office. The CHS represents Canada in t ...

* –

Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy SHOA or Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada de Chile (Spanish for Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy) is an agency of the Chilean Navy managing situations dealing with hydrography and oceanography, includi ...

* – Chinese Maritime Safety Administration * – Colombian National Ministry of Defence,

Colombian Navy ) , colors= , march= ''"Viva Colombia, soy marinero"'' , mascot= , battles= Battle of Lake MaracaiboThousand Days War (Civil war) Colombia-Peru War World War II Korean War Colombian Armed Conflict Operation Atalanta , notable_commanders=José Prud ...

, General Maritime Directorate * –

Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia The Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia is a government agency responsible for providing hydrographic and marine geospatial data for the Republic of Croatia. The institute is located in Split, and covers scientific research and de ...

* – Cuban National Office of Hydrography and Geodesy * – Cypriotic National Hydrographic Committee, The Department of Lands and Surveys *

Democratic People's Republic of Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and ...

– DPRK Hydrographic Department * – Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ports and Studies Division * –

Danish Geodata Agency The Danish Geodata Agency (GST) ( da, Geodatastyrelsen), (previously National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark ( da, Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen, short KMS)), is the Danish state owned central agency responsible for surveying, mapping and land regis ...

* – Hydrographic Service of the

Navy of the Dominican Republic The Navy of the Dominican Republic ( es, Armada de Republica Dominicana (ARD)), is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic, together with the Army and the Air Force. History After the Dominican Republic gained i ...

* – Oceanographic Institute of the

Ecuadorian Navy The Ecuadorian Navy ( es, Armada del Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian entity responsible for the surveillance and protection of national maritime territory and has a personnel of 9,127 men to protect a coastline of 2,237 km which reaches far into t ...

* –

Egyptian Navy The Egyptian Navy ( ar, القوات البحرية المصرية, El-Quwwāt el-Bahareya el-Miṣriyya, Egyptian Navy Forces), also known as the Egyptian Naval Force, is the maritime branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces. It is the largest navy ...

Hydrographic Department * – Estonian Maritime Administration (Aids to Navigation and Hydrography Division) * –

Republic of Fiji Navy The Fijian Navy was created when Fiji ratified the recently created United Nations Convention on Laws of the Sea. The Convention established that maritime nation had an Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 kilometres, which extended Fiji's waters twe ...

Hydrographic Office * – Finnish Transport Agency Hydrographic Office * –

Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service The Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (french: Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine or SHOM) is a French public establishment of an administrative nature (french: établissement public à caractère administratif) admi ...

* – State Hydrographic Service of Georgia * –

Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (german: Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) is a German federal authority based in Hamburg and Rostock. With some 800 employees, the agency's tasks include maritime safety, ...

* – Maritime Authority, Ministry of Transport * –

Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy (HN; el, Πολεμικό Ναυτικό, Polemikó Naftikó, War Navy, abbreviated ΠΝ) is the naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy historically hails from the naval forces of vari ...

Hydrographic Service * – Guatemalan Ministry of Defence, General Directorate of Maritime Affairs * – Maritime Administration Department * –

Icelandic Coast Guard The Icelandic Coast Guard (, or simply ) is the Icelandic defence service responsible for search and rescue, maritime safety and security surveillance, and law enforcement in the seas surrounding Iceland. The Coast Guard maintains the Iceland ...

Hydrographic Department * –

Indian Naval Hydrographic Department The Indian Naval Hydrographic Department (INHD), headed by the Chief Hydrographer to the Government of India, is an Indian government agency responsible for hydrographic surveys and nautical charting in India. Its headquarters National Hydrogra ...

* – Indonesian Hydro-Oceanographic Service * – Iranian Ports and Maritime Organisation * – Ministry of Transport and Communications - General Company for Iraqi Ports, Basrah * – Irish Marine Survey Administration * – Italian Hydrographic Institute * – Jamaican Surveys and Mapping Division * – Japanese Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department * – Survey of Kenya * – Kuwait Ministry of Communications * – Maritime Administration of Latvia, Hydrographic Service * – Lebanese Navy Hydrogaphic Service * – Malaysian National Hydrographic Centre * –

Transport Malta Transport Malta (or the Authority for Transport in Malta) is a government body overseeing transport in Malta. It comes under the authority of the Maltese Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. It was created in 2010, taking over the previous ...

, Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure * -Mauritian Ministry of Housing and Lands * – General Directorate of Oceanography, Hydrography and Meteorology of the

Mexican Navy The Mexican Navy is one of the two independent armed forces of Mexico. The actual naval forces are called the ''Armada de México''. The ''Secretaría de Marina'' (''SEMAR'') (English: Naval Secretariat) includes both the ''Armada'' itself and ...

* – Monaco Directorate of Naval Affairs * – Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology of Montenegro * – Hydrography, Oceanography and Cartography Division of the

Royal Moroccan Navy ber, ⴰⴷⵡⴰⵙ ⴰⴳⴻⵍⴷⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵢⵉⵍⴻⵍ , image = , caption = Royal Moroccan Navy Seal , start_date = active since: 11th century current form: 30 Apr ...

* – Mozambican National Institute of Hydrography and Navigation * – Myanmar Naval Hydrographic Centre * – Dutch Hydrographic Service * –

Land Information New Zealand Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with geographical information and surveying functions as well as handling land titles, and managing Crown land and property. The minist ...

* – Nigerian Navy Hydrographic Office * – Norwegian Hydrographic Office * – National Hydrographic Office of the

Royal Navy of Oman The Royal Navy of Oman ( ar, البحرية السلطانية العمانية), abbreviated RNO, is the maritime component of the Royal Armed Forces of the Sultanate of Oman. Given its long coastline and strategic location along the Indian Oc ...

* – Hydrographic Department of the

Pakistani Navy ur, ہمارے لیے اللّٰہ کافی ہے اور وہ بہترین کارساز ہے۔ English: Allah is Sufficient for us - and what an excellent (reliable) Trustee (of affairs) is He!(''Qur'an, 3:173'') , type ...

* – National Maritime Safety Authority of Papua New Guinea * – Peruvian Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation * – Philippine National Mapping and Resource Information Authority * – Hydrographic Office of the Polish Navy * – Portuguese Hydrographic Institute * – Qatari Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning * – Romanian Maritime Hydrographic Directorate * –

Russian Hydrographic Service The Russian Hydrographic Service, full current official name Department of Navigation and Oceanography of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation ( rus, Управление навигации и океанографии Министер ...

* – Ministry of Works, Transport and Infrastructure * – Saudi Arabian General Commission for Survey * – Seychelles Maritime Safety Authority * – Hydrographic Department, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore * – Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure * – Solomon Islands Maritime Safety Administration * – South African Hydrographic Office * – Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency * – Hydrographic Institute of the

Royal Spanish Navy The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish Navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, ...

* – Sri Lankan National Hydrographic Office, National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency * – Maritime Authority Suriname * -

Swedish Maritime Administration The Swedish Maritime Administration ( sv, Sjöfartsverket) is the government agency in Sweden which provides services to the transport sector by keeping the sea lanes open and safe. The agency is to a certain degree financed through fees levied o ...

* – Hydrographic Department of the

Royal Thai Navy The Royal Thai Navy ( Abrv: RTN, ทร.; th, กองทัพเรือไทย, ) is the naval warfare force of Thailand. Established in 1906, it was modernised by the Admiral Prince Abhakara Kiartiwongse (1880–1923) who is known as ...

* – Tongan Ministry of Infrastructure * – Hydrographic Unit, Ministry of Agriculture & Marine Resources, Lands and Surveys Division * – Hydrographic and Oceanographic Centre of the

Tunisian Navy Tunisian may refer to: * Someone or something connected to Tunisia *Tunisian Arabic *Tunisian people *Tunisian cuisine * Tunisian culture Tunisian culture is a product of more than three thousand years of history and an important multi-ethnic ...

* – Turkish Office of Navigation, Hydrography and Oceanography * – State Hydrographic Service of Ukraine * – Ministry of Communications, National Port Authority of the United Arab Emirates * –

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is the UK's agency for providing hydrographic and marine geospatial data to mariners and maritime organisations across the world. The UKHO is a trading fund of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and is ...

* –

Office of Coast Survey The Office of Coast Survey is the official chartmaker of the United States. It is an element of the National Ocean Service in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is part of the United States Department of Commerce. Mission ...

; National Ocean Service * – Oceanographic, Hydrographic and Meteorological Service of the

Uruguayan Navy The National Navy of Uruguay () is a branch of the Armed Forces of Uruguay under the direction of the Ministry of National Defense and the commander in chief of the Navy (''Comandante en Jefe de la Armada'' or COMAR). History Independence Unde ...

* – Ministry of Lands, Geology, and Minerals * – General Command of the

Venezuelan Navy ) , mascot = , battles = Venezuelan War of Independence and the Battle of Lake Maracaibo , anniversaries = July 24, Birthday of Simon Bolivar, Navy Day and Battle of Lake Maracai ...

, Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation * – Naval Command of Vietnam

Suspended

* – Serbian Directorate for Inland Waterways – suspended since January 2013 * – Syrian General Directorate of Ports - suspended since 1 June 2018

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External links

International Hydrographic Organization

Australian Hydrographic Office

Hong Kong Hydrographic Office

Indian Naval Hydrographic Department

Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (Germany)

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United States)

Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada (Chile)

Sjöfartsverket (Sweden)

Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (France)

Canadian Hydrographic Service

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Hydrography division of Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen (Denmark)

Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service
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