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A world map is a map of the surface of the Earth, which may be made using any of a number of different map projections. Maps of the world are often either 'political' or 'physical'. The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the physical map is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type or land use. Geological maps show not only the physical surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, Geologic fault fault lines, and subsurface structures.
Projections - mainMap projection Maps that depict the surface of the Earth also use a map projectionprojection, a way of translating the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture. Perhaps the best-known world-map projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a form of nautical chart.Airplane pilots use aeronautical charts based on a Lambert conformal conic projection, in which a cone is laid over the section of the earth to be mapped. The cone intersects the sphere (the earth) at one or two parallels which are chosen as standard lines. This allows the pilots to plot a great-circle route approximation on a flat, two-dimensional chart.
See also - Ancient world mapsMappa mundiMap projectionReversed mapTime zone!Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps/Wor ldWikiProject Maps: World
Projections - Stereographic projectionAzimuthal conformal projectionAzimuthal equidistant projectionBonne projectionBottomley projectionChamberlin projectionCraig retroazimuthal projectionDymaxion mapDymaxion projectionEquirectangular projectionGall-Peters projectionGnomonic projectionHammer projectionHobo-Dyer projectionLambert azimuthal equal-area projectionLambert conformal conic projectionLittrow projectionMercator projectionMiller projectionMollweide projectionOrthographic projection (cartography)Orthographic projectionPlate carrée projectionRobinson projectionSinusoidal projectionStereographic projectionTransverse Mercator projectionWerner projectionWinkel Tripel projection
External links - gheos.com - Gheos World map from the Gheos Worldguide cia.gov - World maps from the CIA World Factbookflourish.org - A small collection of world maps viewed from a reversed perspectivefreeworldmaps.net - Shaded Relief Map of the !WorldCategory:MapsCategory:Car tographyis:Heimskortja:ä¸–ç•Œå œ°å›³pt:Mapa-múndifi:Maa#Maai lmankartta
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