World Map HD
Description: This large world map (27.77 inches x 20.48 inches) has clear cartography, bold colors, and user-friendly fonts. The image is a high-resolution world map, and available in AI, EPS, JPEG, or layered PDF formats. The map is customizable. lease contact us if you have any questions.
The image of World Map above is centered on Europe and Africa. Moreover, this World Map image focuses on the location of various countries around the world. Further, this map points out the names and geographical boundaries of these countries.
Representation of a spherical earth on a flat surface requires a map projection. This transformation of spherical earth on to a flat plane produces some distortion, which cannot be avoided. In the above World Map image, the Mercator projection has been used. Though it creates distortion, it is minimal distortion at the equator.
The purpose of this map is to provide correct location, names and boundaries of all the countries in the world. In fact, this map is very useful for teachers, students and for academic purposes. On this image of the World Map, geographic boundaries that run north to south appear in the form of vertical lines. Moreover, geographic boundaries that run east to west appear as horizontal lines. Meanwhile, the projection used in this image of the World Map leads to minimum country-shape distortion, specifically near the equator. Further, a little distortion can be found at the mid-latitudes, whereas extreme distortion will occur in the projection of the poles. Therefore, for the reason stated above, we have not extended the world political map towards the north and south poles.
Various Kinds of World Maps
They depict state and national boundaries and political subdivisions of various regions of the world. Besides focusing on state and national boundaries of geographical regions, they also show locations of major cities.
These maps depict different landforms - rivers, mountains, forested areas, and other physical features of a region. Places at different elevations are shown with different color gradients.
These thematic maps highlight different economic activities in a region. Such maps are referred for forecasting and planning development of a region's economy.
The climatic conditions of a territory are reflected in these maps. They are created after observing climatic patterns in a region over time. Climatic maps highlight individual climatic features and different climatic zones of the Earth.
These are specially designed maps focusing on social, cultural, and economic aspects of a city, state, and country.
These outline maps depict only the national and international boundaries of a region and contain no physical or political features. Blanks maps of cities, states, and countries are great learning tools for students and geographers.
The Earth is spherical in shape, while a map is flat. Hence, map projections are used to depict the surface of a sphere onto a flat surface. Mercator, Aitoff, Eckert V, Robinson, and Miller projections are some commonly used projections.
Due to the rotation of Earth, the time of day is not same at each location in the world. Thus Time Zones were created in order to standardize the time of day around the world.