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English: World map produced by the United Nations Geospatial Information Section (GIS, formerly Cartographic Section) and released on 20 February 2020. Français : Carte du monde produite par la Section d'information géospatiale des Nations Unies (SIG, anciennement Section cartographique) et publiée le 20 Février 2020.
Total area is taken from the United Nations Statistics Division unless otherwise noted. [3] Land and water are taken from the Food and Agriculture Organization unless otherwise noted. [4] The CIA World Factbook is most often used when different UN departments disagree. [1] Other sources and details for each entry may be specified in the ...
The map of the mouth of the River Amazon. 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.
This trivia quiz takes you on a journey around the globe, testing your knowledge of geography while exploring nations across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification . [ 2 ]
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
It is de jure a condominium of South Sudan and Sudan, but de facto administered by two competing administrations and the United Nations. [7] [8] Sudan – Republic of the Sudan UN member state None Sudan is a federation of 18 states. The Abyei Area is a zone with "special administrative status" established by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ...
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.