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Image:BlankMap-World-v3.png – Version of v2, but using thin lines between islands owned by the same country so countries can be colored in one click – may be more convenient for converting large amounts of country data to a map.
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.
This template is used to display a clickable world map to help users navigate a large list of countries by continent. Include the following where you want the map to appear: {{world image map}} The image map assumes that in-page links to all the continents exist, e.g., #Africa, and in some cases, individual countries, e.g., #Canada.
See also Image:A large blank world map with oceans marked in blue.svg and Image:World map nations.svg. This map was improved or created by the Wikigraphists of the Graphic Lab (fr). You can propose images to clean up, improve, create or translate as well.
This work has been released into the public domain by its author, CIA.This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: CIA grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
The use of JPEG is discouraged, since it is a lossy compression format and so will result in a blurry map or diagram. The quality of GIF images is better than JPEG. GIF images allow for the creation of animations. PNG is a lossless, truecolor image format. It is good for all maps and particularly for maps with more than 256 colours.
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This SVG world map uses embedded raster graphics to show its topographic structures. This is a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia ( Featured pictures ) and is considered one of the finest images.