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To learn how to add geographic coordinates to a page using templates, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. To paste a location map with a dot (using the city of Madrid as an example), copy and paste the following code: {{Location map|Spain|label=Madrid|mark=Green_pog.svg |lat=40.5|long=-3.7|width=230|float=center}}
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Africa. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help. This is a container category ... Maps of South Africa (1 P)
Description: Map of Africa for use on Wikivoyage.Multilingual: in separate layers data for language codes: en, eo, fr, nl, ru, uk. Date: 15 April 2007: Source: Own work based on the blank map of Africa
For example, {{Australia Labelled Map|width=500}} displays the labelled image as a larger one of 500 pixels in width instead of the default, 400. For earthly geographic maps, conforming to these specifications can allow easier conversion to for any other purposes such as for the use of {{Location map+}}. x/y. X values are always between 0 and 1.
Image:Macau Parish Locator (template map).png – Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. commons:Category:Maps of India – India Image:BlankMap-PersianGulf.png – Persian Gulf area, showing all of Kuwait , Bahrain , Qatar , and the United Arab Emirates , as well as large parts of other countries like Saudi ...
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 Fra Mauro map of 1459 shows a more detailed picture of Africa as a continent, including the Cape of Diab at its southernmost point, reflecting an expedition of 1420. Sebastian Münster 's Cosmographia (1545) labels the Cape of Good Hope , reached by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, as caput bonae spei .