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  2. World map - Wikipedia

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    Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.

  3. United Nations geoscheme - Wikipedia

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    22 geographical subregions as defined by the UNSD. Antarctica is not shown. The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1]

  4. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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    Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...

  5. List of countries and dependencies by area - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    Hamatarats Ashkharhatsuyts (Geographic Map of the World), [53] was produced in 1695 in Amsterdam by the Armenian printing firm founded by Tovmas Vanandetsi . At the time, one of the most reliable maps of the two hemispheres was the first large-scale map drawn in Armenian. [54] The world map was created in a Western cartographic style. To ...

  7. List of atlases - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable atlases, each a collection of maps, ... National Geographic Atlas of the World (United States, 1963–present) Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968)