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The Ptolemy world map, including the countries of " Serica " and "Sinae" (Cattigara) at the extreme right beyond the island of "Taprobane" (Sri Lanka) and the " Aurea Chersonesus " (Malay Peninsula). 1st Map of Europe The islands of Albion and Hibernia. 2nd Map of Europe Hispania Tarraconensis, Baetica, and Lusitania.
Gulf of the Ganges (Bay of Bengal) left, Southeast Asian peninsula in the center, South China Sea right, with "Sinae" (China). The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of ...
State of emergency declared in Greece after heavy forest fires; Flash flooding in Greece kills one, dozens of buildings flooded; Greece to hold general elections; Greek Socialist party wins general elections; Greek Prime Minister sworn in, new cabinet appointed; Greece’s newly elected Prime Minister pays first foreign visit to Turkey
Greece, [a] officially the Hellenic Republic, [b] is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the ...
Topographic map of Greece. Greece is located in South Eastern Europe, bordering the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a peninsular country, with an archipelago of about 3,000 islands. It has a total area of 131,957 km 2 (50,949 sq mi), [6] of which land area is 130,647 km 2 and internal waters (lakes and rivers) account for 1,310 km 2.
Abkhazia - Artsakh - Republic of China / Taiwan - Kosovo - Northern Cyprus - Palestine - Somaliland - South Ossetia - Tamil Eelam - Transnistria - Western Sahara. Dependencies and other overseas territories. Akrotiri and Dhekelia - Åland - American Samoa - Anguilla - Aruba - Ascension Island - Ashmore and Cartier Islands - Baker Island ...
World map. 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.
These are azimuthal orthographic projections of the Earth from four sides plus the poles. 726x726 pixels, aliased. XCFs have separate layers for water, land, coastlines, political borders, political borders over water (not shown in PNGs), and latitude & longitude gridlines (not shown in PNGs). Image:Blankmap-ao-000 -africa europe.png XCF.