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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.
Greece and the United Kingdom are both members of the United Nations, NATO and the Council of Europe. Greece is known to be one of the most Pro-British countries in the world. [4] According to a global opinion poll, 77% of Greeks view the United Kingdom favourably, while only 10% view it unfavorably. [5]
Important Greek industries include tourism (with 33 million [212] international tourists in 2023, it is the 9th most visited country in the world) and merchant shipping (at 18% of the world's total capacity, [213] the Greek merchant marine is the largest in the world), while the country is a considerable agricultural producer (including ...
Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited.
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.
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, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. [7] It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and more than 100 smaller adjacent islands.
The origins of Western civilization can be traced back to the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Greece [d] and Ancient Rome [e] are generally considered to be the birthplaces of Western civilization—Greece having heavily influenced Rome—the former due to its impact on philosophy, democracy, science, aesthetics, as well as building designs and proportions and architecture; the latter due ...