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UN maps are, in principle, open source material and you can use them in your work or for making your own map. UN requests however that you delete the UN name, logo and reference number upon any modification to the map. Content of your map will be your responsibility. You can state in your publication, if you wish, something like: based on UN ...
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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.
Mountains: Nationally designated protected areas cover 14.3% of the world's mountain areas, and these mountainous protected areas made up 32.5% of the world's total terrestrial protected area coverage in 2009. Mountain protected area coverage has increased globally by 21% since 1990 and out of the 198 countries with mountain areas, 43.9% still ...
The Natural Earth projection is a pseudocylindrical map projection designed by Tom Patterson and introduced in 2008. [1] It is neither conformal nor equal-area , but a compromise between the two. In its original presentation, the projection's origin is described as "The impetus for creating the Natural Earth projection was dissatisfaction with ...
Each map area in turn is split into sixteen map sheets, numbered from 1 through 16 in an identical boustrophedon pattern to the map areas. A map sheet in the Southern zone spans half a degree of longitude, one in the Arctic zone spans a full degree, and one in the High Arctic zone spans two degrees. Each of these 1:50,000 sheets, in turn, was ...