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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin: [tʰɛˈaːtrũː ˈɔrbɪs tɛˈrːaːrũː], "Theatre of the Lands of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas.Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman [2] and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, [3] it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and supporting text bound to form a book for which ...
1 1 0 Northern Europe [o] 106,197,357: 1.3% 0.54% 10 0 0 6 Central Asia: 75,897,577: 1.0% 1.43% 5 0 0 0 Southern Africa: 67,984,554: 0.9% 0.91% 5 0 0 0 Caribbean: 44,182,048: 0.6% 0.71% 13 0 6 9 Australia and New Zealand [p] 31,050,816: 0.4% N/A 2 0 0 4 Melanesia [q] 12,188,834: 0.2% N/A 4 0 1 0 Polynesia: 717,467: 0.009% N/A 5 0 4 1 Micronesia ...
The supercontinent Columbia or Nuna formed during a period of 2.0–1.8 billion years ago and broke up about 1.5–1.3 billion years ago. [ 125 ] [ 126 ] The supercontinent Rodinia is thought to have formed about 1 billion years ago and to have embodied most or all of Earth's continents, and broken up into eight continents around 600 million ...
The Continental Divide in North America in red and other drainage divides in North America The Continental Divide in Central America and South America. The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; Spanish: Divisoria continental de las Américas, Gran Divisoria) is the principal, and largely mountainous ...
In these lists, the sovereign states and dependent territories are classified according to the geoscheme created by the United Nations Statistics Division. [1] According to the UN, the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation ...
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The term Latin America was first introduced in 1856 at a Paris conference titled Initiative of America: Idea for a Federal Congress of the Republics (Iniciativa de la América. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas). [8] Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao coined the term to unify countries with shared cultural and linguistic heritage.