prolegomenon to the updating of IST placements

[Mamorien]

Here's the list as it currently stands. ISTs listed before the semicolon for each country are those that were in place as of 1990; cities after the semicolon are those that subsequently got embassies. Cities frequently picked by seeing what showed up on Google Maps at various zoom levels, with an eye to maximizing coverage (which was one of my goals as it was one of Bob's).

• Afghanistan [32.6 million]: Kabul; Kandahar (by 2000).
  
• Algeria [36.6 million]: Algiers; Ain Salah (after 1990).
  
• Argentina [43.4 million]: Buenos Aires; Córdoba (after 1990).
  
• Australia [22.75 million]: Canberra; Perth (after 2010).
  
• Bangladesh [169 million]: Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna; Rangpur, Sylhet (one after 1995, the other by 2015).
  
• Brazil [212 million]: Brasilia, Fortaleza, Manaus, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador; Porto Alegre (after 2010).
  
• Burma [56.3 million]: Yangon; Mandalay (after 1990).
  
• Canada [35.1 million]: Ottawa; Edmonton (after 1990).
  
• China (special garrisons) [1.3615 billion]: Beijing, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hong Kong, Jenan, Kunming, Lhasa, Shanghai, Shenyang, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi'an, Zhengzhou. Apart from Hong Kong, there's probably overlap with the 10 ISTs that were in place before Tiananmen Square and expelled after. Presumably others, but zooming the map far enough in to find them makes it hard for me to determine which ones are significant.
  
• Colombia [46.7 million]: Bogotá; Cartagena (after 1990).
  
• Democratic Republic of the Congo [79.3 million]: Kinshasa; Kisangani, Kolwezi (one after 1990, the other by 2010).
  
• Egypt [88.4 million]: Cairo, Aswan; Luxor (by 2005).
  
• Ethiopia [103 million]: Addis Ababa; Dire Dawa, Mek'ele (one after 1990, the other by 2005).
  
• France [66.3 million]: Paris, Marseilles.
  
• Germany [80.8 million]: Berlin, Bonn; Munich (after 1990).
  
• Ghana [26.6 million]: Accra; Bolgatanga (by 2010).
  
• India: New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai; Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Meerut, Nagpur, Patna, Pune, Rajkot, Visakhapatman (all by 1995 [921 million]); Agra, Bhubaneshwar, Hubli-Dharwad, Nellore, Raipur, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappali (two by 2000 [1.006 billion], one by 2005 [1.091 billion], three by 2010 [1.173 billion], the last two by 2015 [1.252 billion]).
  
• Indonesia [256 million]: Jakarta, Banjarmasin, Makassar (Ujung Pandang), Medan; Ambon, Jayapura, Kupang (one by the end of 1991, another by 2005, the last after 2010).
  
• Iran [81.8 million]: Shiraz; Tabriz (after the War), Mashhad (by 2000).
  
• Iraq [33.31 million]: Basra, Mosul (one after the War, the other by 2000).
  
• Italy [61.8 million]: Rome, Milan.
  
• Ivory Coast [23.3 million]: Yamoussoukro; Abidjan (by 2015).
  
• Japan [127 million]: Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo; Fukuoka (after 1990).
  
• Kenya [45.9 million]: Nairobi; Marsabit (by 1995).
  
• Korea [total 74.1 million]: Seoul, Busan, Pyongyang (all after 2005 if at all).
  
• Madagascar [24.7 million]: Antananarivo; Ambovombe (by 2015).
  
• Malaysia [30.5 million]: Kuala Lumpur; Kota Bharu (by 1995).
  
• Mexico [119 million]: Mexico City, Monterrey; Mazatlán (after 1990), Merida (after 2010).
  
• Morocco [33.32 million]: Rabat; Marrakesh (after 1990).
  
• Mozambique [25.3 million]: Maputo; Mozambique (by 2015).
  
• Nepal [31.6 million]: Kathmandu; Ghorahi (after 1995).
  
• Pakistan [199 million]: Islamabad, Karachi, Quetta; Bahawalpur, Lahore (one after 1990, the other by 2005).
  
• Peru [30.4 million]: Lima; Iquitos (by 1995).
  
• Philippines [110 million]: Manila, Davao; Cebu (by 1995).
  
• Poland [38.3 million]: Warsaw; Gdansk (after 1990).
  
• Russia [136 million]: Moscow, Murmansk, Yakutsk, Yekaterinenburg. (Irkutsk and St. Petersburg both closed due to population loss; the embassies have been given to local superteams.)
  
• Saudi Arabia [27.8 million]: Riyadh; Jeddah (by 2005).
  
• Spain [48.1 million]: Madrid; Barcelona (after 1990).
  
• Sudan [49.7 million]: Khartoum; Port Sudan (after 1990).
  
• Syria [22.9 million]: Damascus; Aleppo (by 2015).
  
• Taiwan [23.2 million]: Taipei, Kaohsiung (both after 2005).
  
• Tanzania [46.1 million]: Dar es Salaam; Mwanza (by 2000).
  
• Thailand [68.1 million]: Bangkok, Ranong; Chiang Mai (after 2010).
  
• Turkey [82.5 million]: Ankara, Malatya; Istanbul (by 2005).
  
• Uganda [39.9 million]: Kampala; Gulu (by 1995).
  
• Ukraine [44 million]: Kiev (after 1991); Odessa.
  
• United Kingdom [64.1 million]: London, Edinburgh.
  
• United States of America [322 million]: Washington DC, Anchorage, Dallas, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York; Seattle (after 2005).
  
• Uzbekistan [29.2 million]: Tashkent (after 1991), Samarkand (by 1995).
  
• Venezuela [29.3 million]: Caracas; Maracaibo (by 2000).
  
• Vietnam [94.3 million]: Hanoi, Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh; Da Nang (by 1995).
  
• Yemen [26.7 million]: Sana'a; Aden (by 2010).?
  

Just to get it out of the way, and in case nobody else is crazy enough to think of it: whether IST Fukuoka works with a corporate-backed municipal superteam in their struggle against a nebulous "organization for the promotion of the supreme ideological ideal" is left for Bob and the SJGames legal team to determine.

EDIT: On consideration, Casablanca is too close to Rabat. Also, explanations of the punctuation convention are in order.
EDIT 2: Kumasi's too close to Accra; Tamale's bigger, but I can't quite bring myself to put an IST there.
EDIT 3: Tweaked Taiwan, whom I imagine being given the PRC's UN seat after WWIII, and added a list of placements for reunified Korea if they decide to join the UN.
EDIT 4: Relocated Indonesia's post-1990 embassies to underserved regions.