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  2. List of atlases - Wikipedia

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    Atlases at DavidRumsey.com includes many important atlases from the 18th-20th centuries Charting North America , maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection Ryhiner Collection Composite atlas with maps, plans and views from the 16th-18th centuries, covering the globe, with about 16,000 images in total.

  3. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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    Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...

  4. Atlas - Wikipedia

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    An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats.

  5. Portal:Maps - Wikipedia

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    Wikimedia Commons includes the Wikimedia Atlas of the World. Entries available in the atlas. General pages commons:Atlas – commons:Historical atlas - Index of the Atlas - Names in native languages. The world and its continents and oceans General maps of the world - Historical maps of the world - Old maps - Africa - North and South America ...

  6. 30 Maps To Expand Your Knowledge Of The World With ... - AOL

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    Image credits: Ibis_Wolfie In the 1930s, Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers from General Drafting Co. were making a road map of New York state. They decided to make up a fictitious hamlet called ...

  7. Maps of present-day countries and dependencies - Wikipedia

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    See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence. See List of countries for other articles and lists on countries. Wikimedia Commons includes the Wikimedia Atlas of the World. Entries available in the atlas. General pages

  8. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Gott, Goldberg and Vanderbei’s double-sided disk map was designed to minimize all six types of map distortions. Not properly "a" map projection because it is on two surfaces instead of one, it consists of two hemispheric equidistant azimuthal projections back-to-back. [5] [6] [7] 1879 Peirce quincuncial: Other Conformal Charles Sanders Peirce

  9. What is the biggest country in the world? It's so big it has ...

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    According to World Atlas, Russia is the biggest country in the world, followed by Canada and the U.S. in total area. ... Maps are of little help when it comes to size comparisons, World Population ...