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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.
English: The map of the known world by al-Khwarizmi (c. 780 – c. 850), reconstructed from the coordinate data available in languages I know. The sources are works by Hubert Daunicht, Hans von Mžik, Reinhard Wieber and Károly Czeglédy. Part of Europe is missing because I could not find data that were accessible to me.
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.
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