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The English name Switzerland is a portmanteau of Switzer, an obsolete term for a Swiss person which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries, and land. [28] The English adjective Swiss is a loanword from French Suisse, also in use since the 16th century.
Swisskarte.ch – Maps of the Cantons of Switzerland; GeoPuzzle – Assemble cantons on a Swiss map; Badac – Database on Swiss cantons and cities (in French and German)
Quadripartite maps (including the Beatus maps) Complex maps Medieval world maps which share some characteristics of traditional mappae mundi but contain elements from other sources, including Portolan charts and maps associated with Ptolemy 's Geography are sometimes considered a fifth type, called "transitional mappae mundi".
[citation needed] In the Middle Ages, the world was usually portrayed on T and O maps, with the T representing the waters dividing the three continents. By the middle of the 18th century, "the fashion of dividing Asia and Africa at the Nile, or at the Great Catabathmus [the boundary between Egypt and Libya ] farther west, had even then scarcely ...
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.
Ticino (/ t ɪ ˈ tʃ iː n oʊ / tih-CHEE-noh), sometimes Tessin (/ t ɛ ˈ s iː n, t ɛ ˈ s æ̃ /), officially [5] the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, [a] is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.
1990s CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [3] [4] [5] known initially as India Nova, [6] are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.