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Mozambiq Madagasca RMéuanuiorint i(uFsr.) W N E VanuatuNew Fiji SOUTH uay Swaziland A u s t r a l i a Caledonia le na ATLANTIC S (Fr.) PACIFIC i South h ti OCEAN Africa Lesotho OCEAN C n e Uruguay THE PETERS WORLD MAP g r How do maps shape the way you think about the world and its A people? The Earth is round. So every flat, rectangular map involves New distortions. But which distortions? The Peters world map is an Zealand equal-area map, showing countries and continents in accurate Falkland proportion with one another and reducing the visual dominance of Islands (U.K.) the Northern Hemisphere by shifting the equator to the middle of the map, both in sharp contrast to the more familiar Mercator projection. A n t a r c t i c a OCEAN Laptev Sea NwoerdwenayFinland Barents Sea Kara Sea Russia S Estonia Latvia Lake Lith. 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W N E VanuatuNew Fiji Caledonia Swaziland A u s t r a l i a (Fr.) S South Lesotho Africa THE PETERS WORLD MAP How do maps shape the way you think about the world and its people? The Earth is round. So every flat, rectangular map involves New distortions. But which distortions? The Peters world map is an Zealand equal-area map, showing countries and continents in accurate proportion with one another and reducing the visual dominance of the Northern Hemisphere by shifting the equator to the middle of the map, both in sharp contrast to the more familiar Mercator projection. A n t a r c t i c a WORLD • POLITICAL NATIONAL BOUNDARIES While humanity’s impact is quite evident, and even striking, on many remotely sensed scenes, sometimes, as in the case with most political boundaries, it is invisible. State, provincial, and national boundaries can follow natural features, such as mountain ridges, rivers, or coastlines. Artificial constructs that possess no physical reality— for example, lines of latitude and longitude— can also determine political borders. This world political map represents the results of humanity’s efforts to slice and divide Earth into discrete spheres of influence. The National Geographic Society recognizes 192 independent states in the world as represented here. Of those nations, 185 are members of the United Nations. Winkel Tripel Projection Essentials of Cultural Anthropology Second Edition