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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.
The International Map of the World (IMW; also the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1 000 000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by the German geographer Albrecht Penck in 1891. The Central Bureau of the Map of the World was established in London.
Founded in 1988, it is the world's oldest international humanitarian demining NGO, and it is the largest with over 8,000 deminers and support staff operational in over 20 countries. By early 2006 HALO had cleared over 5,000,000 mines and UXO around the world.
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A world map is a map of Earth. World map may also refer to: International Map of the World, an international project to produce topographic maps of terrestrial portions of Earth at the one to one million scale; Overworld, an area within a video game that interconnects all its levels or locations in
The primary map is surrounded on all sides by detailed scientific calculations and descriptions as well as Northern and Southern Hemisphere star charts, a map of the Moon, a latitude and longitude analemma chart, a map of the Solar System, a mercator projection of the Earth, an analemma projection, a seasonal chart, a universal scale chart, and numerous smaller diagrams depicting planets and ...
A Map of the World, 1999 film drama directed by Scott Elliott and based on the novel of the same name by Jane Hamilton; A Map of the World, 1999 album by Pat Metheny and soundtrack of the movie A Map of the World "Map of the World (Part II)", song by the Canadian singer/songwriter Jane Siberry from her 1985 album The Speckless Sky "Map of the ...