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National Geographic Maps, founded in 1915, is the commercial map publishing division of National Geographic, part of a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Society. Initially the in-house cartographic studio for National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Maps is now responsible for the creation and ...
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
National Atlas map (from circa 2005) depicting historical United States territorial acquisitions. The National Atlas of the United States was an atlas published by the United States Department of the Interior from 1874 to 1997. Older editions were printed, but the most recent edition was available online. Since it is a publication of the United ...
National Geographic Travel is the travel and tour division of National Geographic Partners offering National Geographic tours through various third-party partners and its internal tour operator. National Geographic Expeditions was founded in 1999 by the National Geographic Society to fulfill one of its mission and for the proceeds to go towards ...
0027-9358. OCLC. 643483454. National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, [ 3] sometimes branded as NAT GEO[ 4]) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. [ 5] The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine months after the establishment of the society, but is now a popular magazine.
ONS Open Geography Portal. The ONS Open Geography portal from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) provides free and open access to the definitive source of geographic information products, web applications, story maps, services and APIs. All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, unless otherwise stated.
The Genographic Project, launched on 13 April 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, was a genetic anthropological study (sales discontinued on 31 May 2019) that aimed to map historical human migrations patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples. [ 1 ] The final phase of the project was Geno 2.0 Next Generation. [ 2 ]
Gran Atlas Aguilar (Spain, 1969/1970) Historical Atlas of China (Taiwan, 1980) The Historical Atlas of China (China, 1982) National Geographic Atlas of the World (United States, 1963–present) Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968) Times Atlas of the World (United Kingdom, 1895–present) Dorling Kindersley Atlas of the World 1994–present.