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WORLD Arctic Ocean N
Political Map Arctica Ocean
Greenland
Baffin Bay (Denmark)
Alaska Iceland
Russian
(U.S.A.) Norway Sweden Findland Federation
Canada Hudson United Estonia
Bay
Kingdom Denmark Latvia
Poland Belarus
Germany
Arctic Circle Ukraine Kazakhstan Mongolia
North Italy Romania North
Pacific United States Portugal France Austria Eulgaria Uzbkistan Kyrgyzstan Korea
Spain
Ocean Of America North Greece Turkey
Atlantic Tunisia Syria Iran Afghanistan China South
Iraq
Ocean Morocco Israel Jordan Pakistan Korea Japan North
Mexico Algeria Libya Egypt Saudi Nepal Ocean
Arabia UAE India Myanmar Taiwan
Cuba
Belize Mauritania Oman
Mexico
Guatemala Honduras Senegal Mali Niger Yemen Thailand Vietnam
Tropic of Cancer El Salvador Nicaragua Chad Sudan Phillippines
Costarica Guyana Guinea Nigeria Central
Panama African Ethiopia Maldives
Colombia Surinam Cameroon Republic Sri Lanka Malaysia
South French Uganda
Cayenne
Venezuela
Pacific Ecuador Gabon Congo Rwanda Kenya Seychelles Indonesia
Ocean South Zaire Burundi East Papua New
Peru Brazil Tanzania Timor
Equator Atlantic Angola Guinea
Ocean Zambia
Bolivia Mozambique Mauritius
Namibia Zimbabye Madagascar
Paraguay Botswana Australia
South Indian Ocean
Chile Argentina Zealand
Tropic of Capricorn Uruguay Africa
New
Southern Ocean
Antarctic Circle
Antartica
tablets, metal plates, papyrus linen or constructed Earth. The maps are best known to show
of sticks. Today, maps are usually rendered on a several geographical features such as soil
flat surface such as paper or on a computer type, mountains, and land use including
monitor. Maps are the most successful means of infrastructural developments such as roads
recording and communicating information about and buildings. Physical maps are some of
the location and spatial characteristics of the the most colorful maps with a different color
natural world and of different societies and used to indicate different physical features.
cultures. Maps are not perfect, but as technology 2. Political Maps : A political map is a map
has improved, so have the quality and accuracy that shows the political features of an area,
of maps. The science of map making is known as country, or region. It shows a region or
cartography. As maps are so commonly used to country’s different territorial borders or
convey information, it is important to be able to boundaries, the location of major areas or
read and interpret them correctly. cities, and significant land masses such as
Types of Maps bodies of water.

Many types of maps are made. The most com- 3. Thematic Maps : A thematic map is a
monly used maps are: map designed to highlight a theme con-
1. Physical Maps : physical maps are maps nected with a specific geographic area.
that have been designed to show the physi- Unlike general reference map that shows
cal or natural landscape features of the several phenomena (geographical, political,

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