Publisher's Synopsis
A beautiful gift for the adventurers in your family.
This atlas presents a complete view of the world, bringing it to life through innovative maps, stunning images and detailed content.
This fully-updated, comprehensive world atlas includes:
- Highly detailed regional and world-wide mapping
- Wide range of topical issues covered including natural disasters, population, climate and the environment
- Key country statistics allow comparisons of their state of development and an understanding of today's world
- Thousands of facts and statistics including world and continental ranking tables
Mapping updates include:
- Mont Blanc height updated to 4,806m/ 15,763ft
- Mariana Trench depth updated 10,924m/ 35,839ft
- More than 2000 place names updated, including major updates in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and New Zealand
- Road and rail updates, including the under-construction Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link between Germany and Denmark
- New flags for Honduras and Kyrgyzstan
- Currency change for Croatia (now Euro) and Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe Gold)
