National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the WorldMaps have been around in some form or other since humans first understood the need to record their physical space, and for the past hundred years, the National Geographic Society has been at the forefront of mapmaking. This Fourth Edition of our popular Family Reference Atlas of the World brings you the world and its marvels--through maps. Using the latest technological advances, satellite data has been compiled to create some 1,400 images--maps, diagrams, graphs, and tables, as well as National Geographic's signature color photographs--to allow you to examine the most remote corners of the globe. In an era when political, health, climatic, and environmental crises anywhere on the globe can affect our daily lives, maps provide a time-honored way to navigate the realities we face. With this atlas, you hold a powerful yet accessible tool to understanding the interplay of global forces at work in the fast-changing but always miraculous planet that is our home. |
Contents
Table of Contents | 10 |
Physical World Mapping Language Diversity Vanishing Languages | 16 |
Structure of the Earth 56 Health and Education | 22 |
Surface of the Earth World Economies Growth of World Trade Merchandise Exports Main | 30 |
Climate 66 Energy Energy Consumption by Leading Source Energy Production by Fuel | 36 |
Biosphere | 42 |
Introduction | 48 |
West Central Africa | 57 |
Human Influences World Heritage Sites Endemism Growth in Nationally Designated | 74 |
Western Hemisphere | 80 |
Physical and Political 128 South America Physical and Political | 82 |
Political Bolivia Brazil Paraguay Peru | 88 |
National Park Service | 94 |
Mexico and Central America Belarus Moldova Ukraine Western Russia | 116 |
Islands of the Antilles | 122 |
Common terms and phrases
Africa agriculture ALASKA ANTARCTICA ARCTIC ARCTIC OCEAN Asia ATLANTIC OCEAN AUSTRALIA average Beach biodiversity biosphere Canada Cape capita STATEHOOD CAPITAL POP Caribbean Challenger Deep China clouds continent Cropland crops cultural data available Desert developing countries Earth's ECONOMY IND energy Europe exports fish forest freshwater GDP PER CAPITA glaciers global Grand Grassland Gross Domestic Product Gulf human inches INDIAN OCEAN industrial Island Lake Land Cover landforms Less LITERACY metamorphic metro area MEXICO million years ago minerals Mountain National Monument National Park Neth North PACIFIC OCEAN PANTHALASSIC OCEAN Peninsula percent petroleum plant Plateau plates POP city proper POPULATION Projection SCALE Puerto regions RELIGION Roman Catholic REPUBLIC River Roman Catholic LANGUAGE Russia Santa sedimentary rocks SOUTH AMERICA sq km STATUTE MILES surface tourism TROPIC TROPIC OF CANCER U.S. dollars United Urban Valley vegetables West wind