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Earth Platinum weighs 150 kilograms (330 lb) and has 128 pages, each of which is so large it takes two hands (or people) to turn a page. [3] The book is a mixture of maps and gigapixel photography. The maps include large orthographic maps of each continent (showing political and physical features), maps of the oceans , (including shipwreck ...
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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English: A blank flattened political map of the world centered at the 162E longitude line. Detailed SVG map with grouping enabled to connect all non-contiguous parts of a country's territory for easy colouring. Smaller countries can also be represented by larger circles to show their data easier.
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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.
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.
Map of Germany from the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke Atlas, first published in 1660, is one of the world's largest atlases. [1] Originating in The Netherlands, it is 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) tall by 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in) wide when open, [2] and so heavy the British Library needed six people to carry it.