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an attempted world map dating to the 9th century BCE in ancient Babylon. The history of geography as a discipline spans cultures and millennia, being independently...

physical features. Political maps emphasize territorial boundaries and human settlement. Physical maps show geographical features such as mountains, soil...

are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to context...

world map that represents world geography as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later...

A thematic map is a type of map that portrays the geographic pattern of a particular subject matter (theme) in a geographic area. This usually involves...

Company and the National Geographic Society. Initially the in-house cartographic studio for National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Maps is now...

concern of map design. Modern cartography constitutes many theoretical and practical foundations of geographic information systems (GIS) and geographic information...

The Tube map (sometimes called the London Underground map) is a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the London Underground...

summary of a geographic characteristic within spatial enumeration units, such as population density or per-capita income. Choropleth maps provide an easy...

developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map (2nd century CE)...

An isochrone map in geography and urban planning is a map that depicts the area accessible from a point within a certain time threshold. An isochrone (iso...

attached maps, although some scholars believe that the references to maps in the text were later additions. No Greek manuscript of the Geography survives...

In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief...

A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude...

Rediscovering the Golden State: California Geography (John Wiley & Sons, 2018). online Map of Northern California Map of Southern California 37°9′58″N 119°26′58″W...

Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive...

Areography, also known as the geography of Mars, is a subfield of planetary science that entails the delineation and characterization of regions on Mars...

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...

a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S...

The geography of Israel is very diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow-capped mountains in the north. Israel is located at the eastern...