The location of JOSH-A, the central headquarters of the Earth Alliance forces as of C.E. 71. (See: Heavens Base)

The first of the ten PLANTs which make up Aprilius City, and the meeting place of the PLANT Supreme Council. The PLANTs are divided into twelve cities named after the months of the Roman calendar, so Aprilius One corresponds to April 1 - the birthday of George Glenn, the first Coordinator, as well as the date on which PLANT Supreme Council elections are held.

A new PLANT constructed after the end of the first war between Earth and the PLANTs. Armory One is located at Lagrange point 4, far from the PLANT homeland, and serves as a military arsenal for the ZAFT forces.

An asteroid fortress controlled by the Eurasian Federation, a member of the Earth Alliance. Located at Lagrange point 3, a point in Earth orbit directly opposite the moon, Artemis is considered a backwater base of little strategic value. The asteroid is protected by the impenetrable "Umbrella of Artemis," a lightwave defense barrier which is impervious to physical and energy weapons alike.

An Earth Alliance base located in the Arzachel Crater on the near side of the moon. After the destruction of the Ptolemaeus Lunar Base during the first war between Earth and the PLANTs, the Arzachel Base becomes the Alliance's main lunar stronghold and a staging point for attacks on the PLANT homeland.

A large city in northern Africa which serves as the base of operations for Andrew Waltfeld, ZAFT's dreaded Desert Tiger, and as the headquarters of his land battleship Lesseps.

One of the two space fortresses that guard the PLANT homeland. Originally controlled by the Republic of East Asia, who gave it the name Nova, this asteroid was placed in Earth orbit at Lagrange point 4 so that it could be used as a resource mine. After Nova was captured by ZAFT on July 12, C.E. 70, it was transferred to the PLANT homeland at Lagrange point 5 and converted into the military base known as Boaz.

The name Boaz is borrowed from one of the two pillars of Solomon's temple.

A ZAFT base located in the Gulf of Carpentaria on the northern coast of Australia, a continent controlled by the PLANT-aligned Oceania Union. The base's disassembled components were dropped from orbit on April 2, C.E. 70, and with 48 hours the foundations of ZAFT's first terrestrial stronghold had already been laid. The construction of the base was completed on May 20, whereupon the ZAFT forces began using it as staging area for attacks on the rest of the Earth.

During the first war between Earth and the PLANTs, the Earth Alliance launches an invasion of the Oceania Union in order to capture the Carpentaria Base, but Oceania's national boundaries are later restored by the Junius Treaty. When the new conflict begins, the Carpentaria Base once again becomes a major ZAFT stronghold, and large numbers of reinforcements are deployed here during Operation Spear of Twilight.

The first lunar city, and the site of the preparatory school where Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala met as children. The construction of Copernicus began in C.E. 10, in order to provide a source of raw materials for the space colony program, and the city was opened to civilian inhabitants two years later. Kira and Athrun met here in C.E. 61, but Athrun was summoned back to the PLANTs in C.E. 68, and the Yamato family left Copernicus and moved to the resource satellite Heliopolis that same year.

At the start of C.E. 70, with war between Earth and the PLANTs seeming all but inevitable, the United Nations chose Copernicus as the site of a final round of peace negotiations. However, on February 5 of that year, the negotiations were disrupted by a terror bombing. The Tragedy of Copernicus claimed the lives of the sponsor nations' representatives and wiped out the senior leadership of the United Nations, and PLANT representative Siegel Clyne escaped only because his arrival had been delayed by a shuttle malfunction. This catastrophe, which the sponsor nations blamed on the PLANTs, was the final trigger that escalated the dispute into all-out war.

After many years of space exploration and development, countless discarded satellites, empty propellant tanks, wrecked spacecraft, and other junk have accumulated in Earth orbit to form a huge ring of space debris. This Debris Belt is inherently unstable, and over the years its contents will gradually spiral inwards under the influence of Earth's gravity and fall onto the planet's surface.

A crater on the near side of the moon. Once the location of a major Earth Alliance resource base, this became the site of the Grimaldi Front's final battle on June 2, C.E. 70.

A land formation at the southern tip of modern-day Spain, where the Mediterranean Sea opens onto the Atlantic Ocean. Historically used as a military fortress, this is now the location of a major ZAFT base. Gibraltar was captured by ZAFT forces on May 25, C.E. 70, following a major naval battle off the coast of Casablanca, and subsequently became the main staging area for ZAFT's operations in Europe and northern Africa.

During the first war between Earth and the PLANTs, the Earth Alliance eventually captures this base in the second Casablanca Sea Battle. However, Gibraltar once again becomes a ZAFT stronghold as the new conflict begins, and large numbers of reinforcements are deployed here during Operation Spear of Twilight.

A crater on the near side of the moon. Earlier in the war, the Grimaldi Crater marked the dividing line between ZAFT and Earth Alliance territory, and the lunar frontline was thus referred to as the Grimaldi Front.

A Middle Eastern city located on the south shore of the Caspian Sea, which is also the site of a large powerplant. The Earth Alliance forces have occupied Gulnahan as a bridgehead to maintain control of Eurasia, and they have constructed a fortification known as the Lohengrin Gate to guard the valley that leads to the city itself. However, the local population strongly opposes the Earth Alliance occupation, and has formed a resistance movement.

An Earth Alliance military base located in Iceland. Following the destruction of JOSH-A during the first war between Earth and the PLANTs, Heavens Base becomes the main headquarters of the Earth Alliance forces.

A resource satellite located at Lagrange point 3, and controlled by the Orb Union, one of Earth's neutral nations. Heliopolis uses a traditional "Island 3" space colony design, reinforced with a central axial shaft, and the colony cylinder is attached to a mining asteroid which serves as a source of raw materials. Heliopolis is officially neutral territory, making it an attractive refuge for families like those of Kira Yamato and his friends who hope to avoid being drawn into the current conflict. However, Heliopolis has secretly been playing host to the Atlantic Federation's Gundam development project, and thus lending support to the Earth Alliance.

One of the two space fortresses that guard the PLANT homeland. Like its companion Boaz, Jachin Due is a former resource asteroid, which was converted into a defensive base after ZAFT forces repulsed an Earth Alliance fleet in its vicinity on April 17, C.E. 70. The asteroid's thick rock walls make it an ideal military facility, capable of surviving anything short of an all-out nuclear attack.

The name Jachin is borrowed from one of the two pillars of Solomon's temple, while Due is the Italian word for the number two.

Pronounced "Joshua," this immense underground base is the central headquarters of the Earth Alliance forces. As its name indicates, JOSH-A is located in Alaska, at the northwest extremity of the Atlantic Federation's territory.

The PLANT which was destroyed in the infamous Bloody Valentine incident. The seventh of the Junius City PLANTs, it was converted into an agricultural production facility in C.E. 69, in order to help the PLANTs attain self-sufficiency by growing their own food. On February 14, C.E. 70, three days after the outbreak of war between the PLANTs and the Earth Alliance, the Alliance forces struck at their enemies' food supply by launching a nuclear attack on Junius Seven. In the wake of this so-called Bloody Valentine, the tragedy of Junius Seven became a rallying cry for the ZAFT forces. The remains of the PLANT itself drifted away from their original position at Lagrange point 5, and have now become part of Earth's orbiting Debris Belt.

On March 10, C.E. 72, representatives of the PLANTs and the nations of Earth gather at the remains of Junius Seven to sign the Junius Treaty that officially brings the war to an end. Ironically, these remains later play a key role in the Break The World incident that triggers a new war the following year.

A city on the island of Taiwan, part of the territory of the Republic of East Asia, which is the site of one of the Earth Alliance's major spaceports. ZAFT attacks Kaohsiung on January 15, C.E. 71, as part of its ongoing Operation Uroboros campaign, and the city falls eight days later.

A crater on the far side of the moon where ZAFT established its own lunar base earlier in the war. On May 3, C.E. 70, ZAFT began an offensive against the Earth Alliance's Ptolemaeus Lunar Base, using the Lorentz Crater as a staging area. This campaign ended with the battle at the Endymion Crater on June 2, C.E. 70, after which ZAFT withdrew from the moon and abandoned its lunar bases.

The site of a ZAFT base at the northern end of the Persian Gulf. The Mahamul base was established in preparation for an attack on the Earth Alliance stronghold at Suez, and is commanded by an officer named Joachim Ruddle.

A space colony located at Lagrange point 4, named after the pioneering genetic theorist Gregor Mendel. The construction of Mendel began around C.E. 30, and the colony went on to host many of the genetic engineering companies and businesses involved in Coordinator production, such as GARM R&D.

Mendel was abandoned in C.E. 68 following the outbreak of a lethal biohazard, after which the entire colony was sterilized via X-ray irradiation. Although many of the space colonies at Lagrange point 4 were damaged or destroyed during the current war, the uninhabited Mendel colony has remained relatively intact.

A resource satellite controlled by the Republic of East Asia, and located at Lagrange point 4. On June 14, C.E. 70, ZAFT began an attack on the asteroid which continued for almost a month, destroying most of the L4 space colony cluster. The Earth Alliance abandoned Nova on July 12, and the asteroid was subsequently transferred to the PLANT homeland at Lagrange point 5 and converted into the military base known as Boaz.

One of several islands in the archipelago which makes up the Orb Union. Onogoro is controlled by the Orb military and by the Morgenroete munitions company, and its high-security facilities are protected even from satellite surveillance.

The name Onogoro is derived from an island in Japanese mythology.

The isthmus which connects Central and South America. This is the location of the Panama Canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as one of the Earth Alliance's major spaceports. The Panama spaceport is the site of the Porta Panama mass driver, jointly developed by the Atlantic Federation and the United States of South America, which was seized by the former at the beginning of the war. As one of the Alliance's last remaining spaceports, Panama is now an important strategic target for the ZAFT forces.

The Earth Alliance's main lunar base, located in the Ptolemaeus Crater on the near side of the moon. Originally established by the Atlantic Federation in C.E. 35 to police the space colonies, this base now serves as the headquarters of most of the Alliance's space fleets, and as a staging area for their attacks on the PLANT homeland.

A city in northeastern Egypt which is the site of a major Earth Alliance base. This base controls the Suez Canal that connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and is now the main target of ZAFT's military operations in Eurasia.

A former factory area in northern Africa. On February 28, C.E. 71, the Archangel fights a final battle here against the ground forces of Andrew Waltfeld.

A town in the Libya region of northern Africa, which is the home of many of the Desert Dawn resistance fighters. Caves in the surrounding mountains are used to store weapons and provisions for the resistance.

On February 16, C.E. 71, ZAFT forces under the command of Andrew Waltfeld attack Tassil as an act of retaliation against Desert Dawn.

An Earth Alliance spaceport located on the shore of Lake Victoria in eastern Africa. The Victoria spaceport is the site of the Habilis mass driver, which was jointly developed by the Eurasian Federation and the South African Union. This was the target of ZAFT's first orbital landing operation on March 8, C.E. 70, but this first Battle of Victoria ended with a ZAFT defeat due to inadequate ground support. By the start of C.E. 71, however, the battle lines between the Alliance-aligned South African Union and the PLANT-controlled African Community have moved dangerously close to this strategic target.

An abandoned theater at the PLANT known as Junius Five, which was the site of Lacus Clyne's first public performance. The White Symphony theater is now slated for demolition so that the land can be put to agricultural use.

A fourth-generation international space station, its name borrowed from the world tree of Norse mythology, which was constructed at Lagrange point 1. The construction of Yggdrasil began during the last years of the A.D. calendar, resumed upon the conclusion of the Reconstruction War in C.E. 9, and was completed two years later. This space station came under attack early in the current war, and was destroyed during a fierce battle between ZAFT and Earth Alliance forces on February 22, C.E. 70.

A large cylindrical space station in the PLANT homeland which serves as the headquarters and command center of the ZAFT forces. This military station is surrounded by dozens of floating docks for use by ZAFT warships.

A research colony located at Lagrange point 5. When George Glenn, the first Coordinator, returned from Jupiter in C.E. 29, this colony was chosen to host the investigation of the extraterrestrial fossil known as Evidence 01 Zodiac's extraterrestrial research organization soon grew into space's largest research facility, and the colony became a thriving center for space science. Its legacy is carried on by the PLANT settlements which now populate Lagrange point 5, and by the Zodiac Alliance - now known as ZAFT - which was created to fight for the economic and political independence of the PLANTs.