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WYD | World Youth Day | |
WSSD | World Summit on Sustainable Development | |
WW2 | World War 2 | |
NWW | Network World, Inc. | |
WCQ | World Cup Qualifier | |
WSF | World Social Forum | |
WISE | World Institute of Scientology Enterprises | |
WCC | World Council Of Churches | |
WFP | World Food Program | |
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | |
NWW | Network World, Inc. | |
WC | World Class | |
WGV | World Golf Village | |
WW | Whole World | |
WSG | World Services Group | |
WWF | World Wrestling Federation | |
WCO | World Customs Organization | |
WBG | World Bank Group | |
WRC | World Rally Championship | |
JEW | Jimmy Eat World | |
WVI | World Vision International | |
WBI | World Bank Institute | |
WBC | World Baseball Classic | |
WUF | World Urban Forum | |
OKC | Will Rogers World Airport |
What does world map mean?
- 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. Many techniques have been developed to present world maps that address diverse technical and aesthetic goals.Charting a world map requires global knowledge of the earth, its oceans, and its continents. From prehistory through the Middle ages, creating an accurate world map would have been impossible because less than half of Earth's coastlines and only a small fraction of its continental interiors were known to any culture. With exploration that began during the European Renaissance, knowledge of the Earth's surface accumulated rapidly, such that most of the world's coastlines had been mapped, at least roughly, by the mid-1700s and the continental interiors by the twentieth century. Maps of the world generally focus either on political features or on physical features. Political maps emphasize territorial boundaries and human settlement. Physical maps show geographical features such as mountains, soil type, or land use. Geological maps show not only the surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures. Choropleth maps use color hue and intensity to contrast differences between regions, such as demographic or economic statistics.
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