World Map - Map of the World

Explore the World Political Map - World Map is a representation of the surface of the Earth. The Map of the World showing names of all the Countries in the World along with their political boundries, geographic location and water bodies. Asia is the largest continent in the world both in terms of size and population.

World Map - A Map of the World with Country Names Labeled

About Map: The World Map showing 197 countries in the World along with their international boundary and water bodies.

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World Map

A World Map is a map of all of the surface of the Earth. The World Map is a graphical representation of the Real world. The World Map presents a lot of information about the world in a simplified and visual way. It indicates the land and the seas of earth. The world map shows continents and the countries, which are part and parcel of continents, transcontinental countries, independent and dependent territories, oceans and seas, large and Small islands and everything that exists in the world. The world map also indicates the network of lines, which represent meridians and parallels, the geographic coordinate system.

The World's largest countries by area includes the Russian Federation, Canada, the United States of America, China, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria while the smallest countries include the Vatican City, Monaco, Andorra, and Singapore.

Types of World Map

Some of the most common types of World Map are political, physical, topographic, economic, climate, and thematic maps. World Map generally focus on political features and physical features of the World. Political maps displays territorial boundaries and human settlement such as cities, state, countries, roads, rails, highways, various places, population, etc. Physical maps represents geographical features of the World such as mountains, rivers, lake, bodies of water, plateaus,landforms, climate, soils.

World Map Projections

A Map projection is a visual representation, transferring the graticule of latitude and longitude on a plane surface. There are different types of map projections such as Mercator projection, Robinson projection, Cyclindrical projection, Azimuthal projection, Conic projection, Dymaxion Map, the Mollweide Projection, Gall-Peters, Goode's homolosine, AuthaGraph, Peirce Quincuncial, Winkel Tripel Projection and The Peters projection.

Continents Of The World

In the discipline of Geography, "Continent" means one of the major land masses. A continent is the Earth`s main division of land. Continent can be defined as the large land mass, which is separated from other landmasses by oceans.The Earth has seven continents. They are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Australia. Among the seven continents, Asia is the biggest continent, while Australia is the smallest.

Seven Continents of the World

How many countries are there in the World?

The answer for this question varies from source to source. According to United Nations Organisations, there are 195 countries in the world. Out of which 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See (Vatican City) and the State of Palestine. According to ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) Country Codes Standard, there are 249 countries in the world out of which 194 are independent.

As per the International Monetary Fund, it has 237 countries on its list. The list does not state whether the countries are independent countries or countries without sovereignty or territories if they are independent or dependent. However, the list says that it has the number of countries stated above.

What are Dependent Territories?

Transcontinental Countries

Transcontinental countries or nations are situated or located on one or more continents. Such continents are called transcontinental or intercontinental states. Transcontinental countries are basically part of a particular continent but a portion / overseas of the country or countries lie in the other continent. To make it simple, transcontinental countries have some portion of their territory, geographically divided at least two continents. Around 18 transcontinental countries are there in the world. For example, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey are transcontinental countries, which are located in both Europe and Asia. Even though Armenia and Cyprus are considered politically European countries but geographically both the countries are situated in the Western part of Asia.

World (Earth) Facts

About Oceans

The ocean is a massive body of salt water which covers around 71 percent of Earth's surface. There are five oceans in the world namely Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern Antarctic and Arctic. The Pacific is the biggest ocean in the world while the Arctic is the smallest of all.

The Pacific Ocean: The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of all the five oceans of the Earth. It is 165,250,000 square kilometer that accounts for 63,800,000 square miles. That's why it is called the largest division of the World ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North America and South America on the east. There are five continents, which are touched by the Pacific Ocean viz North America, South America, Asia, Australia and Antarctica. Countries bordering the Pacific Ocean are Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Singapore and South Korea.

Atlantic Ocean: The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest one among the five oceans of the world. It has an area of 106,460,000 square kilometres approximately. It is believed that the Atlantic Ocean drives our weather patterns, which includes hurricanes. It is the home to numerous species. The ocean separates the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. There are a number of countries that border the Atlantic Ocean.

Indian Ocean: The Indian Ocean is the third biggest ocean. It is enclosed with Asia in the north, Africa in the west and Australia to the east. The Indian Ocean is named after India because of its strategic location at the head of the ocean. India shares the long coastline, which is longer than any other country in the Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean is bounded by Iran, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh to the north, the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands of Indonesia and Australia to the east, the Southern Ocean to the south and Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to the west.

Oceans of the World

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Largest Seas in the World

Geography of the World

Geography is essentially the study of the planet and the establishment of comparative relationships in order to analyses the diversity present across geographically distinct areas of the world. Each region enhances the other. Similarly, world geography is responsible for constructing a net of different regions with their unique characteristics and forming the world's unified character, with the condition that each region is dependent on its specific allocation of Earth.

The Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only known astronomical object to sustain life. While there is a lot of water all over the Solar System, only Earth has liquid surface water. The oceans cover around 71% of Earth's surface, dwarfing its lakes, rivers, and polar ice. Land, which consists of continents and islands, makes up the remaining 29% of the surface of the Earth. Mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes are all results of the interaction between the several slowly moving tectonic plates that make up the Earth's surface layer. The magnetic field that forms Earth's magnetosphere and deflects harmful solar winds is produced by the liquid outer core of the planet. The ellipsoid shape of Earth has a circumference of around 40,000 km. It is the solar system's densest planet.

The total area of the World /Earth is 510072000 km2 (196940000 sq mi) out of which land arena is about 148940000-km2 (57510000 sq mi. The oceans are spread in 361132000-km2 (139434000 sq mi). The age of the Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years, plus or minus 50 million years. Scientists scoured the globe in search of the oldest rocks to radio metrically date. The escape velocity on Earth is approximately 40,270 kmph, or 11,186 m/s. The highest point of the world is Mount Everest's peak. With a depth of 10,902-10,929 metres, the Challenger Deep is the deepest known point on the Earth's seabed. The world's population is still growing, but the rate of growth is slowing. The world's population is estimated to reach 8 billion in 2022, 9.7 billion in 2030, and 10.4 billion in 2100. This planet is the biggest and most massive of the four rocky worlds. The Earth orbits the Sun at a distance of about eight light minutes, taking a year (or 365.25 days) to complete one revolution.

Change in World Geography - World Map

Our world is always spinning at a speed of one thousand miles per hour. We are orbiting the sun at 20 miles per second. We, and our entire galaxy, are speeding through space at over a million miles per hour. Our world's surface is also moving and changing. How has the Earth's surface changed over time? Look at some of these incredible facts.

• 200 million years ago most of the earth's land was one huge continent named Pangaea, meaning "all lands." All the seas were one huge ocean called Panthalassa, meaning "all seas."
• Millions of years ago, New York City was on the equator.
• Antarctica was once a rain forest millions of years ago.
• India split from Africa millions of years ago, crashed into Eurasia, and tangled up the Himalaya Mountains.
• While the Pacific Ocean is getting smaller, the Atlantic Ocean is expanding by an inch every year.
• Every 100 years, the Atlantic Ocean's coastline recedes around four inches.
• France is gradually tipped toward the north, and is rising in the south and sinking along the channel coast.
• Africa is slowly picking itself apart in the Rift Valley, which runs between Zaire and East Africa.
• South America's Andes Mountains are escalating in height.

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