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World map. 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.
This gallery of sovereign state flags shows the national or state flags of sovereign states that appear on the list of sovereign states. For flags of other entities, please see gallery of flags of dependent territories. Each flag is depicted as if the flagpole is positioned on the left of the flag, except for those of Iran, Iraq and Saudi ...
Flags of the World (abbreviated FOTW or FotW) is an Internet -based vexillological association and resource. [4] Its principal project is the Internet's largest website devoted to vexillology, containing comprehensive information about various flags, [1] and an associated mailing list. The mailing list began as a discussion group in about ...
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] The creators note that "the assignment of ...
The flag of the United Nations consists of the white emblem on the sky blue background. The emblem depicts a azimuthal equidistant projection of the world map, centred on the North Pole, with the globe being bisected in the centre by the Prime meridian and the International Date Line. The projection of the map extends to 60 degrees south ...
Flag map of the world (2009 version).svg. Deutsch: Eine Karte, die alle UN-Staaten mit ihrer Flagge zeigt. Das Gebiet der Westsahara ist grau eingefärbt, weil kein UN-Staat dieses Gebiet repräsentiert. English: A map showing the flags of the world, in equirectangular projection. The countries shown are the members of the United Nations.
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .
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