Following the great work Imran Shaik on creating world map in XAML (http://silverlight2.blogspot.com/2007/12/silverlight-world-map.html), I decided to improve it a bit:

• Every country is highlighted on mouse hover/out and can be selected
• All these properties can be customised from single style definitions in XAML and C# code behind
• Labels are added for each continent; these can potentially select all countries within certain continent
• Tooltips are added for countries within South America just for the demo purposes

The entire Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight 3 project can be downloaded from: 
http://www.sgolubev.com/share/WorldMapInXaml/WorldMapInXaml.zip (~6Mb)

You will find a self-contained map user control which you can reuse in your projects. Please respect copyright rules specified on the Imran’s site. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.

Hope you find this useful!