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  2. World map - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Category:War map templates - Wikipedia

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    If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:War map templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page.

  4. Template:India States and Territories Labelled Map - Wikipedia

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    This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

  5. Margaret Cousins - Wikipedia

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    She was the wife of poet and literary critic James Cousins, with whom she moved to India in 1915. She is credited with preserving the tune of the Indian National Anthem Jana Gana Mana based on the notes provided by Tagore himself in February 1919, during Rabindranath Tagore's visit to the Madanapalle College. [ 2 ]

  6. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    A type of thematic map that uses areal symbols to visualize a spatially dependent variable (e.g. population density) by refining a choropleth map with ancillary information about the distribution of the variable. The dasymetric method attempts to improve the resolution of maps based on average or per-capita figures calculated for discrete ...

  7. Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System - Wikipedia

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    The system was developed partly because access to foreign government-controlled global navigation satellite systems is not guaranteed in hostile situations, as happened to the Indian military in 1999 when the United States denied an Indian request for Global Positioning System (GPS) data for the Kargil region, which would have provided vital information. [22]

  8. Polyandry in India - Wikipedia

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    The wife can only ascertain the blood-relationship of the children, though recently there have been a few instances of paternity tests using DNA samples to resolve inheritance disputes. The rules for breaking the marriage are strict and a brother going against the marriage agreement can be treated as an outcast while losing his entire share in ...

  9. Map communication model - Wikipedia

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    The Map Communication Model is a theory in cartography that characterizes mapping as a process of transmitting geographic information via the map from the cartographer to the end-user. [1] It was perhaps the first paradigm to gain widespread acceptance in cartography in the international cartographic community and between academic and ...