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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.
World map of countries with nuclear weapons World 5 ... World map showing daylight around 13:00 UTC, April 2nd, 2005. ...
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.
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
The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian cartographer Fra Mauro, which is “considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography." [ 1 ] It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame that measures over two by two meters.
Include the following where you want the map to appear: {{world image map}} The image map assumes that in-page links to all the continents exist, e.g., #Africa, and in some cases, individual countries, e.g., #Canada. As time permits, more countries could be added, but a higher resolution version of this template is more appropriate for that.
map from wikipedia, summary there: A blank map of the world as of 2005, with country outlines. Sovereign microstates less than 2 500 km² in area are depicted as circles (see Wikipedia:Image_talk:BlankMap-World-v2.png for listing). The map uses the Robinson projection centered on the Greenwich Prime Meridian.
feature: which geographic objects should be displayed (corresponds in the map data to the name of the field under the objects field). The default is value countries. ids of geographic entities: The actual parameter names depend on the base map and the selected feature. For example, for the above mentioned world map the ids are ISO country codes.