US military bases worldwide

[Lee-Lee]

18. As other have said that map is nowhere near accurate

Most of those maps or websites listing draw their info from what is known as the DOD Base Structure Report that lists all DOD real estate owned, leased or rented overseas.

Problem is people exaggerate and call every ones of those a "base". For example I just checked the 2015 listing to see what was listed for Canada, there is a single leased plot of land with a 144 square foot building. Literally a 12x12 shack on some land.

The number similarly includes thing like recreation areas overseas for servicememembers.

There are a lot of leased hangars at airports or buildings at ports.

The report also lists every parcel owned separately and in cases like Germany what is really one base that has parcels that are not contiguous or were acquired at different times can be made up of anywhere from 2 to over a dozen parcels. Only one base but many parcels and if you dishonestly represent what the report says you end up calling it many "bases".

I don't think anyone would legitimately consider a shack on some acreage in Canada a base no more than you would consider the recruiting officer down in the strip mall a base.