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World Maps

World Maps are still very popular today. These types of maps are really huge and If you would take an old map it would be pretty big, there are some variations that can be easier to use like the globe but the best way to view it would be in a digital environment. Basically, The World Maps are maps of all the regions that we recognize today like, Asia, Europe, Oceana, North and South America and Africa.

A World Map Is defined as the map of the entire surface of the earth which may be made by using different kinds of map projections. Most of the world maps are defined with 2 things: Political or physical. Political Maps are maps that define places to be bordered by territory and sometimes political thinking like communism.
The Physical Maps are normal features of geography such as mountains, rivers and the characteristics of the sea and even soil type and even land use. Geological maps show not only the physical surface but characteristics underneath the rocks like fault lines, subsurface structures.

 
 World maps are measured by a map projection which is the method used in cartography to measure and represent two-dimensional cruved surface of the earth or other body on a plane. The most common projection is the Mercator projection which is a cylindrical map projection presented by the flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant bearing and correct course.
There are also some variations of world maps used in different hemisphere and of course eastern countries such as China, Japan and Korea along with Australia and New Zealand. Usually they use maps which places American Continents on the right, Europe and Africa on the left and of course, Asia Pacific Countries in the center.
On the political side of world maps, a lot of it is bound to change the next few years because of globalization and a lot of boundaries are slowly being crossed out and changes like the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s empire in Iraq will make sure that the political side of the maps will always change for the better or sometimes for the worse.

World maps are one of the few things that is still constantly changing year in year out, the onslaught of global warming is bound to change a lot of formations in the world for the next 50 to 100 years and our modern cartographers will always continually face the challenge of revising our maps.



 
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