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  2. Fra Mauro map - Wikipedia

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    The map depicts Asia, Africa and Europe. The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian (Venetian) 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.

  3. European watershed - Wikipedia

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    European watershed. Coordinates: 61°28′N 37°46′E. Main European drainage divides (red lines) separating catchments (green regions). The main European watershed is the drainage divide ("watershed") which separates the basins of the rivers that empty into the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea from those that feed the ...

  4. South-up map orientation - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Marble photograph in its original orientation [1] South-up map orientation is the orientation of a map with south up, at the top of the map, amounting to a 180-degree rotation of the map from the standard convention of north-up. Maps in this orientation are sometimes called upside down maps or reversed maps. [citation needed]

  5. Mundus inversus - Wikipedia

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    The Hanged Man from Tarot decks is a literal visualization of the mundus inversus, where the natural order of things is overturned. Mundus inversus, Latin for "world upside-down," is a literary topos in which the natural order of things is overturned and social hierarchies are reversed. More generally, it is a symbolic inversion of any sort.

  6. Category:Bodies of water of Europe by country - Wikipedia

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    Bodies of water of San Marino ‎ (1 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Serbia ‎ (4 C) Bodies of water of Slovakia ‎ (4 C) Bodies of water of Slovenia ‎ (7 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Spain ‎ (11 C, 3 P) Bodies of water of Sweden ‎ (11 C, 4 P) Bodies of water of Switzerland ‎ (5 C)

  7. International waters - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands. [1]

  8. Water distribution on Earth - Wikipedia

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    The total volume of water on Earth is estimated at 1.386 billion km 3 (333 million cubic miles), with 97.5% being salt water and 2.5% being freshwater. Of the freshwater, only 0.3% is in liquid form on the surface. [2][3][4] Because the oceans that cover roughly 70.8% of the area of Earth reflect blue light, Earth appears blue from space, and ...

  9. Category:Bodies of water of Europe - Wikipedia

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    M. Mediterranean Sea. Categories: Landforms of Europe. Bodies of water by continent. Water in Europe. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.