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See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence. See List of countries for other articles and lists on countries. Wikimedia Commons includes the Wikimedia Atlas of the World. Entries available in the atlas. General pages
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.
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Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited.
This map is saved in human-editable plain text format to make updating easier for everyone. Save and open with Notepad and simply cut and paste the country code from one class to another when updating then save and upload noting your changes.
Date: 27 July 2007: Source: Own work: Author: STyx: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Europe location map.svg This file is deprecated. Use Image:World location map.svg. See also Image:A large blank world map with oceans marked in blue.svg and Image:World map nations.svg.