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Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories.
This is an index of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area. [1]
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 United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification . [ 2 ]
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
Klondike, Yukon, a region in the Yukon; Klondike (electoral district), a district of the Legislative Assembly of Yukon; Klondike Highway, connecting Skagway, Alaska to Dawson City, Yukon; Klondike River, the landmark after which is named: Klondike Gold Rush, a historical migration to this part of the Yukon; Klondike Gold Rush National ...
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
Includes inland water area of 78,797 mi 2 (204,083 km 2) and Great Lakes water of 60,251 mi 2 (156,049 km 2); excludes coastal water area of 42,225 mi 2 (109,362 km 2) and territorial water area of 75,372 mi 2 (195,213 km 2) [2] Sahara: 9,200,000: Largest hot desert in the world. Australasian Mediterranean Sea: 9,080,000