Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Learning the secret location of the "spice islands"—the Bandas and Ternate and Tidore in the Malukus in present-day Indonesia, then the single source of nutmeg and cloves and the main purpose for the European exploration of the Indian Ocean [citation needed] —Albuquerque sent an expedition there under António de Abreu.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Zaragoza, as seen by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 Zaragoza sheet of MTN50 (Spain's National Topographic Map at 1:50,000 scale), at its first digital edition (year 2006). Zaragoza lies in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula, in the rather arid depression formed by the valley of the Ebro.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
English: A map of the hemisphere centred on 118, -2.5, using an orthographic projection, created using gringer's Perl script with Natural Earth Data (1:50000 resolution, simplified to 0.25px). Indonesia is highlighted in red.
The location of Indonesia An enlargeable map of the Republic of Indonesia (excluding North Kalimantan, Riau Islands, West Papua, and West Sulawesi). The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Indonesia:
For an excellent example of a map showing all provinces of Indonesia, look here: Caveats. Location templates sometimes give inaccurate location of markers if the marker size is large and label may not properly aligned. The marker reference is at the top-left, not at the center.
Indonesia is the world's largest producer of palm oil [177] Indonesia has a mixed economy in which the private sector and government play vital roles. [ 178 ] As the only G20 member state in Southeast Asia, [ 179 ] the country has the largest economy in the region and is classified as a newly industrialised country .