World map
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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. A map projection is any method of representing the surface of a sphere or other three-dimensional body on a plane.
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, fault lines, and subsurface structures.
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See also
- Clickable world map
- Continental drift
- European Digital Archive on Soil Maps of the World
- International Map of the World
- List of World Map changes
- Mappa mundi
- OneGeology
- Time zone
- World Map at Lake Klejtrup
- Global MapTemplate:Div col end
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Projections
- Albers projection
- Azimuthal conformal projection: see Stereographic projection
- Azimuthal equidistant projection
- Behrmann projection
- Bonne projection
- Bottomley projection
- Cahill octahedral Butterfly projection: see Bernard J.S. Cahill
- Craig retroazimuthal projection
- Dymaxion projection
- Equirectangular projection
- Gall–Peters projection
- Gnomonic projection
- Goode homolosine projection
- Hammer projection
- Hobo–Dyer projection
- Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection
- Lambert conformal conic projection
- Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection
- Littrow projection
- Mercator projection
- Miller cylindrical projection
- Mollweide projection
- Peirce quincuncial projection
- Peters projection
- Plate carrée projection
- Polyconic projection
- Robinson projection
- Sinusoidal projection
- Stereographic projection
- Transverse Mercator projection
- Waterman butterfly projection
- Werner projection
- Winkel Tripel projection
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