World Maps at a Click of The Mouse
DID you know that the Earth is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old? And that it has a population of 6,135,000,000 people occupying a total land area of 148,647,000 square kilometres? Also, are you aware that the total water area covering the Earth is 361,419,000sq km (70.9 per cent) in size and that of all the water on Earth, 97 per cent is salt water? It is rather amazing to know such facts, yet many tend to take them for granted.
Another interesting fact is that the circumference of the Earth at the equator is 40,066km with a diameter of 12,753km. It is one huge planet! Even more interesting is that the Earth orbits the sun at 66,700 miles per hour, that is 107,320km per hour. If you think of the speed of the plane, just imagine how fast the Earth travels around the sun.
I remember learning all this information in school. It was printed in geography text books. Today, I no longer study geography, but I can imagine how useful this one page of information in WorldAtlas.com can be for today's students.
What I listed above is only a small section of the page. The rest are on interesting facts about oceans, continents, islands and countries of the world.
Did you ever wonder which countries in the world are the oldest? The answers are San Marino (301AD), France (486AD), Denmark (950AD), Portugal (1143AD), Andora (1278AD) and Switzerland (1291AD). Or, which of the countries are the richest? The five richest are Luxemborg, Switzerland, Japan, Liechtenstein and Norway. The gross national product (GNP) is US$45,360 (RM172,368) for Luxembourg and US$34,515 for Norway.
For more information, go to http://www.worldatlas.com/geoquiz/thelist.htm You can also find flags of a whole list of countries.
Click on Malaysia, for example, and you will see the Malaysian flag.
From the flag page, visitors can opt to go to another page with brief information on the country and this includes other links to other maps or information provided at other Web sites.
When I clicked to get more information, I was a little taken aback when the natural hazards listed were floods and landslides.
Also useful are specialty flags such as that of the Olympics, Nato and United Nations. Who knows this might come in handy when you least expect it.
You can also get world maps and outline maps at WorldAtlas.com This should come in useful once in a while. If you want a world time zone map, it is also available here.
How about a clip art of outline maps, world maps and globe images? Would you have any use for them?
You can look for them here as well. I can imagine these could be used not only in the classroom or training environment, but also in the business world. They can be downloaded and used for free.
However, if you need a specific or customised map for your PowerPoint presentation or your Web site, for example, you can get WorldAtlas.com to do just that. I believe WorldAtlas.com is a useful one-stop centre for world maps, flags, basic information of countries, cities, regions and so on.
Atlapedia Online at http://www.atlapedia.com/ is another Web site for world or country maps. Visit it if you cannot find what you need from WorldAtlas.com
Another good Internet resource for maps can be found at http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm?PM=ss11-geography
It seems to me that teachers teaching geography at all levels of education should find these online resources interesting and useful.
New Straits Times (Malaysia), Mar 06, 2003
Another interesting fact is that the circumference of the Earth at the equator is 40,066km with a diameter of 12,753km. It is one huge planet! Even more interesting is that the Earth orbits the sun at 66,700 miles per hour, that is 107,320km per hour. If you think of the speed of the plane, just imagine how fast the Earth travels around the sun.
I remember learning all this information in school. It was printed in geography text books. Today, I no longer study geography, but I can imagine how useful this one page of information in WorldAtlas.com can be for today's students.
What I listed above is only a small section of the page. The rest are on interesting facts about oceans, continents, islands and countries of the world.
Did you ever wonder which countries in the world are the oldest? The answers are San Marino (301AD), France (486AD), Denmark (950AD), Portugal (1143AD), Andora (1278AD) and Switzerland (1291AD). Or, which of the countries are the richest? The five richest are Luxemborg, Switzerland, Japan, Liechtenstein and Norway. The gross national product (GNP) is US$45,360 (RM172,368) for Luxembourg and US$34,515 for Norway.
For more information, go to http://www.worldatlas.com/geoquiz/thelist.htm You can also find flags of a whole list of countries.
Click on Malaysia, for example, and you will see the Malaysian flag.
From the flag page, visitors can opt to go to another page with brief information on the country and this includes other links to other maps or information provided at other Web sites.
When I clicked to get more information, I was a little taken aback when the natural hazards listed were floods and landslides.
Also useful are specialty flags such as that of the Olympics, Nato and United Nations. Who knows this might come in handy when you least expect it.
You can also get world maps and outline maps at WorldAtlas.com This should come in useful once in a while. If you want a world time zone map, it is also available here.
How about a clip art of outline maps, world maps and globe images? Would you have any use for them?
You can look for them here as well. I can imagine these could be used not only in the classroom or training environment, but also in the business world. They can be downloaded and used for free.
However, if you need a specific or customised map for your PowerPoint presentation or your Web site, for example, you can get WorldAtlas.com to do just that. I believe WorldAtlas.com is a useful one-stop centre for world maps, flags, basic information of countries, cities, regions and so on.
Atlapedia Online at http://www.atlapedia.com/ is another Web site for world or country maps. Visit it if you cannot find what you need from WorldAtlas.com
Another good Internet resource for maps can be found at http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm?PM=ss11-geography
It seems to me that teachers teaching geography at all levels of education should find these online resources interesting and useful.
New Straits Times (Malaysia), Mar 06, 2003
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