Questions Related to Organisations, Cities and Other

Some questions related to X-Com base positioning:

Do all the named cities (and islands) belong to organisations? In UFO: Enemy Unknown, IIRC, there were borders indicating what cities belonged to which countries (some apparently didn't belong to any funding nations) but there are none in X-Com: TftD.

It seems that Terror missions sometimes happen on spots without any visible city names. Would this indicate that also the land mass that belongs to an organisations should be covered by sonars/transmissions resolvers in order to protect that organisation or does it suffice to have the cities covered? For example, is it enough to cover Reykjavik to have the Icelandic Union under protection or must the whole land mass (Greenland) be covered?

Infiltration missions. Since the mission is to infiltrate the gov't, do all the infiltration missions happen in capitals?

Radars and Transmission Resolvers? Nautical Miles are mentioned for sure but it's hard to comprehend what exact coverage is offered by the different radars. NKF said:


The distance between Novosibirsk and Moscow is about half of my screen size, so that'd mean a small sonar should be able to detect almost everything on the screen except for the corners when zoomed in just enough to see the city names...? (Presuming the sonar coverage is circular)

I'm trying to figure out some more or less ultimate base positioning. I like the idea the manual gives about the Sea of Japan, a base placed there would cover three wellpaying organisations. A base between Asian Coalition and Arabian Bloc should also be a good spot, but regarding the question earlier about cities, I don't see any cities in the Arabian Bloc, so where do the borders go... USA pays most and should most definitely be covered, but I have a feeling one base isn't sufficient. It seems it would be wise to place a base covering the west coast (I played with the idea of placing one base in the North American Sea but it seems there isn't enough water to intercept properly from that position, but for a cheap "listening post" it might not be half bad presuming the transmission resolver doesn't work only under water, which I presume the sonar does) along with Canada with one base, somewhere between Anchorage and San Francisco perhaps? I also wonder if a base located under UK would be enough to cover Icelandic Union, Euro-Syndicate and Egyptian Cartel and maybe even parts of Euroasia? Or does the sonar and transmission resolver only work under water making it a necessity to place a base in the Mediterranean? I must say base positioning decisions were bloody bloody bloody much easier in UFO: EU...