To mark International Cat Day, we looked through our photo archive and put together a gallery of cats from around the world.  From feral cats on the hunt to domesticated cats providing companionship, our gallery features images of cats living in Peru, Syria, Egypt, China, Italy, Romania and the United States.

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An Abyssinian cat reacts during an international cat beauty show in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, April 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

In this Aug. 15, 2014 photo, Maria Torero’s son Fabian, 7, plays with the hospice’s cats. Maria Torero, cares for 175 cats with leukemia at her home in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A cat looks at a chicken and its chicks, in Caykara, on the Turkey-Syria border, across from the Syrian city of Kobani, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat runs at Al-Azhar Park, one of the bustling city’s few public parks in Cairo, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Abyssinian cat ‘Nara von der Loreley’ looks through a transparent foil prior to the competition during the International pedigree dog and purebred cat exhibition in Erfurt, Germany, Saturday, June 20, 2015. Dogs and cats from 21 countries take part at the exhibition and the different competitions. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

In this Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter, feeds a cat bread in the old city of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki, File)

Separated by a pane of glass, a white cat on the inside of a Brooklyn brownstone tries to play with a black cat sitting on the exterior window sill Monday, March 1, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

In this June 14, 2012 photo, Natalia Lerner, who immigrated to Israel in 1991 from the city of Tyumen in Siberia, presents her cat to the judges of a cat competition in the central Israeli city of Holon. Cats are prominent in Russian culture, and most members of Israeli cat societies are immigrants from the former Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A motorcycle rider carries his cat Chiquinho on his bike, near Maracana stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A cat attempts to climb a tree at a park in Beijing, Wednesday, June 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A cat carries a sparrow it had caught at the Zasavica marsh, 90 kilometers west of Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

A marooned resident peers from his upper floor window with his cat following flooding which was spawned by typhoon Sanba (local name “Karen”) Saturday Sept.15, 2012 at San Juan city, east of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Selma, the turtle grabs the attention of a stray cat, while on her daily walk out, near Taksim square, in Istanbul, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat sits on a shoulder of a man attending gay rights demonstration near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Sunday, June 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

A woman pets her cat during the International Cat Exhibition in Sofia, Saturday, April 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

A cat sits by a man reading a newspaper at a park in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

A Syrian migrant woman kisses the paw of Tabush, a male cat that made the trip from Syria to Greece with its owners at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Saturday, March 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat looks at a herd of goats at a compound for the displaced in western Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

A cat stops and warm up under the sunlight, in Rome, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Kittens are held by their owner waiting for the evaluation of a judge at an international cat beauty show in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Up to 300 cats mainly from countries in central and eastern Europe entered the two day competition. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013 photo, bicyclist Rudi Saldia and his cat Mary Jane pose for a portrait during an interview with the Associated Press in Philadelphia. Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on YouTube. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

A cat sleeps next a Kalashnikov weapon on a Hamas security check point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 photo, a cat investigates a fish in the port of the southern Spanish city of Barbate, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A cat looks on next to a restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 28, 2011.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Missy, the stable cat, is licked by a diary cow during feeding time at Madersbacherhof Farm in Brixlegg, in the Austrian Alps, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. The cat lives in the stable with the diary cows who are kept inside for the duration of winter. (AP Photo/Rob Taggart)

A cat rubs his head against a wall, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A woman holds her cat as worshipers attend a mass in the Saint Anton church in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. It is the animal patron saints day in which thousands of people all over Spain bring their pets to churches to be blessed. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

A British Shorthair kitten plays with a toy while being evaluated at an international feline beauty show in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru/Mediafax)

A cat is stranded on a rock surrounded by rapids at the base of Akron Falls in Akron Falls Park in Akron, N.Y., Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Joyce Kavanagh pets her cat as she sits in her room at the Silverado Senior Living Center Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Encinitas, Calif. At the senior center, residents are encouraged to bring their pets. Everything from miniature horses to chinchillas  can be found on the grounds, and residents benefit from frequent contact with the pets. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

In this Feb. 28, 2015 photo, a street cat that survives on fish scraps nestles on a net being repaired by Manuel Batista de Moraes at the dock in the Vila Pinheiro slum, part of the Mare complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A Persian kitten, shortlisted for the Best in Show award, is seen while being examined by a referee during an international feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. The contest, significantly less enjoyed by the cats than by the many visitors, was entered by more than 200 felines. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A Bangladeshi woman cleans the doorway to her home as a cat sits nearby early in the morning in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

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