Table of Contents FRONT OF THE BOOK SOUTH AMERICA 68 NORTH AMERICA 52 PHYSICAL POLITICAL MAPS 54 PHYSICAL POLITICAL MAPS 70 GETTING STARTED How to Use This Atlas EUROPE 82 PHYSICAL POLITICAL MAPS ABOUT THE CONTINENT 84 86 ABOUT THE CONTINENT 56 ABOUT THE CONTINENT 72 CANADA UNDERSTANDING MAPS Exploring Your World kinds of Maps How to Read a Map NORTHWESTERN SOUTH AMERICA UNITED STATES 64 Colombia Ecuador PLANET EARTH Earth in Space Earth in Motion NORTHERN EUROPE Denmark Estonia Finland Iceland Latvia Lithuania Norway Sweden MEXICO CENTRAL AMERICA Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama THE PHYSICAL WORLD Physical Map The Land World Climate Factors influencing Climate World Vegetation Environmental Hot Spots Natural Disasters NORTHEASTERN SOUTH AMERICA WESTERN EUROPE Andorra Austria Belgium France Germany Ireland 66 80 SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA Argentina WEST INDIES THE BAHAMAS Antigua a Barbuda Bahamas Barbados THE POLITICAL WORLD Political Map World Population Population Trends World Languages Literacy World Religions World Economies World Trade World Water World Food World Energy Minerals Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica St Kitts Nevis St Lucia St Vincent the Grenadines Trinidad Tobago Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands Portugal San Marino Spain Switserland United Kingdom Vatican City EASTERN EUROPE Belarus Czech Republic Hungary Moldova Poland Slovakia Ukraine La page 3 BALKANS CYPRUS Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Greece Kosovo Macedonia Montenegro Romania Serbia EUROPEAN RUSSIA North America Grand Canyon page 56 Ege
ASIA 100 PHYSICAL POLITICAL MAPS AFRICA 124 PHYSICAL POLITICAL MAPS AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND OCEANIA 140 PHYSICAL POLITICAL MAPS ANTARCTICA 152 ABOUT THE CONTINENT 102 126 142 154 ABOUT THE CONTINENT 104 ABOUT THE CONTINENT 128 ABOUT THE REGION 144 ASIAN RUSSIA 105 132 AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND 148 NORTH AFRICA Algeria Egypt Libya Morocco Tunisia 150 CENTRAL ASIA Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan OCEANIA Federated States of Micronesia WEST AFRICA Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands EAST ASIA China Japan North Korea South Korea Antarctica Pens page 156 Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde Cote d Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Liberia Tuvalu Vanuatu 114 THE OCEANS 156 EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Israel Jordan Lebanon Syria Turkey 158 Mauritania Niger Nigeria Sao Tome Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Investigating the Oceans Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean EAST AFRICA SOUTHWEST ASIA Bahrain Iran Irag Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Yemen BACK OF THE BOOK FLAGS FACTS GAMES A M New Zealand appe 166 GLOSSARY SOUTH ASIA Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Central African Republic Chad Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Rwanda Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Uganda GEO FACTS FIGURES OUTSIDE WEBSITES INDEX PLACE NAMES INDEX OCEAN FEATURES ILLUSTRATIONS CREDITS 189 191 191 205 207 120 SOUTHEAST ASIA Brunei Cambodia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam SOUTHERN AFRICA Angola Botswana Comoros Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Seychelles South Africa Swaziland Zambia Zimbabwe INDONESIA TIMOR LESTE 122
6 HOW TO USE THIS ATLAS GETTING STARTED How To Use This Atlas YOU ARE HERE Locator globes help you see where one area is in relation to others On regional pages Ishown herel the area covered by the main map is yellow on the globe and its continent is green On pages with continent maps the locator globe shows the whole continent in yellow The surrounding land is brown This atlas is a window on your planet Through it you can explore the world To learn about maps use the first section Understanding Maps Next basic facts about Earth as a planet are presented in the section called Planet Earth The section Physical World includes world maps that focus on different aspects of nature and the environment The Political World contains world maps about how humans live on the planet In the pages that follow the maps photographs and essays are arranged by continent and region You can look up specific places or just browse Remember it's your planet learn it love it explore it 115 SOUTHWEST ASIA Southwest Asia This region made up largely of deserts and mountains includes the coun tries of the Arabian Peninsula and those that border the Persian Gul Islam is the dominant religion in each and the two holl est places for Muslims Mecca and Medina are here Arabic is the principal language everywhere butiran where most people speak Farst While water has been the most portant natural resource here for millennia global attention has focused in recent decades on the region's oil wealth With the major ity of the world's reserves found here oil has brought outside offences and military con flict Long a cradle of c ation Southwest Asia continues to hold the world's attention STATS FACTS At the left hand edge of each continent opener and regional page is a bar that includes basic information about the subject This feature is a great first stop if you're writing a report CHARTS GRAPHS Each region includes a chart or graph that shows information visually South America WHERE ARE THE PICTURES If you want to know where a picture in the regional sections of this atlas was taken look for the map in the photo essay Find the label that describes the picture you're curious about and follow the line to its location Maps use symbols to stand for political and physical features At right is the key to the symbols used in this atlas If you are wondering what you're looking at on a map here check
HOW TO USE THIS ATLAS 7 GETTING STARTED INDEX AND GRID Look through the index for the place name you want Next to it is a page number a letter and another number Go to the page Draw imaginary lines from the letter along the side of the map and the number along the top Your place will be close to where the lines meet Rio Muni region Equatorial Guinea 135 F7 Rivera Uruguay 81 04 Riverside California IU S 62 E2 Riviera regionl Europe 84 F3 Rivne Ukraine 95 D6 Rivadh Saudi Arabia 117 EL COLOR BARS Every section of this atlas has its own color Look for the color on the Contents pages and across the top of every page in the atlas Within that color bar you'll see the name of the section and the title for each topic or map These color bars are a handy way to find the section you want SOUTHWEST ASU North America South America Europe Asia Africa Australia New Zealand Oceania Antarctica REDES ARABIAN SEA BAR SCALE If you want to find out how far it is from one place on a map to another use the scale A bar scale appears on every map It shows how distance on paper relates to distance in the real world GULF OF ADEN MAP KEY Mountain peak with elevation above sea level Waterfall Dry Salt Lake Glacier Low point with elevation below sea level City Town Country capital State Provincial capital Small country Ruin Swamp Sand Defined boundary Undefined boundary Claimed boundary Dam Canal Ice Shelf Reef Lake Intermittent Lake Tundra Lava Below sea level Point of Interest River
