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  2. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  3. Portal:Maps/Maps/World - Wikipedia

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    World map of countries with nuclear weapons World 5 ... World map showing metrication, color-coded by year of conversion. ...

  4. Tropics - Wikipedia

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    World map with the intertropical zone highlighted in crimson Areas of the world with tropical climates. The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at 23°26′10.0″ (or 23.43612°) N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at 23°26′10.0″ (or 23.43612°) S.

  5. Global North and Global South - Wikipedia

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    More specifically, the Global North consists of the world's developed countries, whereas the Global South consists of the world's developing countries and least developed countries. [2] [4] The Global South classification, as used by governmental and developmental organizations, was first introduced as a more open and value-free alternative to ...

  6. List of countries bordering on two or more oceans - Wikipedia

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    World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic.

  7. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    Mercator 1569 world map ( Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata) showing latitudes 66°S to 80°N. The Mercator projection ( / mərˈkeɪtər /) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

  8. Eurasia - Wikipedia

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    Eurasia ( / jʊəˈreɪʒə / yoor-AY-zhə, also UK: /- ʃə / -⁠shə) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. [3] [4] According to some geographers, physiographically, Eurasia is a single continent. [4] The concepts of Europe and Asia as distinct continents date back to antiquity, but their borders have ...

  9. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    'A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World'; Italian: Carta Geografica Completa di tutti i Regni del Mondo, "Complete Geographical Map of all the Kingdoms of the World"), printed by Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci at the request by Wanli Emperor in 1602, is the first known European-styled Chinese world map (and the first Chinese map to ...

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