Map World, curiosities, representations, Image of the World Map
O map world is a representation of our planet, in it contains the relevant information that a map must have, which are the names of each country, each territory with a different color from the other for better identification, the area painted in blue representing the ocean, which in this case is also identified each with their name.
This is one of identifications of a map, there are other types of representation, each projection focusing on a specific type of information.
Representations from the map world
There are other types of map projections world was the best known type where we can better identify countries, to the other representations they are:
- Merchant Representation
- Representation of Peters
- Robinson's representation
- Representation of Mollweide
- Representation of Behrmann
- Representation of Albers
- Polar Equidistant Azimuthal Representation
- Rpresentation Holzel
- Discontinuous Representation of Goode
- Van Der representation Grinten
- Sinusoidal Representation
Each of these map representations world, aims to show information relevant to the type of representations to which they were made.
Image of the World Map (click to enlarge)
What are the poles?
You poles terrestrial points are two natural points caused by the movement of the Earth around its axis, we have the north pole and the south pole at where We have the Antarctica is the most remote continent in the world.
What is Lfrom Ecuador?
The Equator is the line invisible that divides our planet in half, to one side the hemisphere north and to the other the hemisphere south, that point The where passes the equator line and is the point of latitude 0th on our planet.
Tropic of Ccancer and TC peakapricorn what are worth for?
This two tropics are also lines invisible to which solar radiation falls perpendicularly on the summer solstice of each of the hemispheres, these are the lines invisible of the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn that delimit the intertropical regions.
Curiosities of the World Map
How big is the earth?
The Earth is not a very big planet, in our solar system we have much larger planets and we also have some smaller ones, the Earth has a diameter of 12,756.2 km
How many pThere are currently?
There are 193 recognized countries for the UN, but FIFA members are 209, this difference is due to the UN not recognizing some countries such as the Vatican, Taiwan, Greenland and the Cayman Islands, as well as some other unrecognized countries.
What is the biggest country in the world?
A Russia is the largest country in the world and has more than 17 million people kilometers square, with more or less 145 million inhabitants in 2018.
What is the smallest country in the world?
The smallest country in the world is the Vatican, but the Vatican is not recognized as a country by the UN, it there is about of 0.44 kilometers squares and has around 840 inhabitants.
Maps then and now
Get to know how Maps were made in the past and now and the evolution of Maps, also watch a documentary that tells the story of Maps.
