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News & Contemporary Events: Interactive Maps & Tables

Interactive Map

The Authagraph Map - represents all oceans and continents - showing an advanced precise perspective of our planet.

The True Size

It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map.

An Urban World: : Visualizing the growth of urban populations between 1950 and 2050 0:54

Factbook

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

World Life Expectancy

Displays data on the life expectancy from every corner of the globe.