
Large, political map of the world with index & stickers to highlight your selected locations. A particularly useful addition is a small fold-out flap in the jacket, showing an overview of the the world with timezones indicated. A set of seven peel-on/peel-off (po-po) stickers are provided for making selected locations more prominent when navigating. The cartography is politically based, with variations in colour for different countries. Shipping routes & long-distance railway lines are shown, as are national boundaries, & also undefined/disputed boundaries. Capital cities are clearly marked, with other major places marked differently depending on their population number, beginning with places with over 50, 000 inhabitants. The multilingual map legend
Includes:: English. A booklet attached to the map cover has an extensive index of place names, a distance/times table for routes between certain destinations. Projection is van der Grinten; latitudes are marked at 20