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This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Map of the World or A Map of the World may refer to: World map, a map of most or all of the surface of the Earth; A Map of the World, 1994 novel by Jane Hamilton A Map of the World, 1999 film drama directed by Scott Elliott and based on the novel of the same name by Jane Hamilton; A Map of the World, 1999 album by Pat Metheny and soundtrack of ...
In a classic map of the world (with north at the top), the southern ends of the continental landmasses appear to "drip" downward. Continental drip is the observation that southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms.
In ''The Myth of Continents,'' Lewis and Wigen have written an entertaining and informative account of the way our maps show us the world that we want to see. [ 5 ] Denis Cosgrove considered the book a serious and well-researched scholarly work that challenges conventional spatial divisions like continents and argues that they are arbitrary and ...
Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis.The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. [1]
The impressive escarpments that line the coasts of continents speak to a geologic break-up that occurred nearly 140 million years ago. ... Map shows rising wildfire threat across the U.S.: See if ...
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.
The Rockefeller File offers a critical look into the lives -- and secrets -- of the controversial family behind the colossal fortune. The shocking, true story was written by Gary Allen almost 30 ...