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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, 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.
Lambert azimutal equal-area projection, WGS84 datum. Standard meridian: 15°E; Standard parallel: 0° Scale: 1:23,420,000 (precision: 5,855 km) Date
Below is a list of countries in Africa by area. [1] Algeria has been the largest country in Africa and the Arab world since the division of Sudan in 2011. The largest African country not located in the Arab world is the Democratic Republic of the Congo located in Central Africa, which is also the second largest in the continent.
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.
Lambert azimutal equal-area projection, WGS84 datum, standard meridian: 15°E, standard parallel: 0° Scale: 1:15,000,000 (accuracy: 3,75 km) Date
Lakes of Africa by country (41 C) Rivers of Africa by country (53 C) ... Bodies of water of South Africa (5 C, 2 P) Bodies of water of South Sudan (2 C)
Bodies of water of Africa by country (59 C) + Bodies of water of Mayotte (1 C, 4 P) A. Aquifers of Africa (3 P) B. Bays of Africa (8 C, 6 P) E. Estuaries of Africa (1 ...
Mercator's original map is truncated at 80°N and 66°S with the result that European countries were moved toward the centre of the map. The aspect ratio of his map is 198 / 120 = 1.65. Even more extreme truncations have been used: a Finnish school atlas was truncated at approximately 76°N and 56°S, an aspect ratio of 1.97.