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Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
This is a list of countries and territories by their average elevation above sea level based on the data published by Central Intelligence Agency, [1] unless another source is cited.
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.
1913 saw the beginning of the International Map of the World initiative, which set out to map all of Earth's significant land areas at a scale of 1:1 million, on about one thousand sheets, each covering four degrees latitude by six or more degrees longitude. Excluding borders, each sheet was 44 cm high and (depending on latitude) up to 66 cm wide.
Land surface elevation extremes by country; Country or region Highest point Maximum elevation Lowest point Minimum elevation Elevation span Afghanistan: Noshaq: 7492 m 24,580 ft Amu Darya: 258 m 846 ft 7234 m 23,734 ft Albania: Korab: 2764 m 9,068 ft Adriatic Sea: sea level 2764 m 9,068 ft Algeria: Mount Tahat: 2908 m 9,541 ft Chott Melrhir ...
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Chart showing the relationship between the 100 peaks with highest prominence in the world. (In the SVG version , hover over a peak to highlight its parent(s) and click it to view its article.) This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence .