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An essential, quick-reference source of basic information on the world's continents, countries,regions, cities, and natural features. From the river Aa to the town of Zywiec. More than 47,000 entries, 218 maps, and 15,000 cross-references provide key facts in concise, easy-to-use form about today's world.

• All entries appear in a single alphabeticallist to speed use, andall maps appear with the main entries to which they relate. Each entry includes pronunciation, and word division is indicated.
• The concise, easy-to-read entries provide such quick-reference data as location, size (area, population, length of rivers, height of mountains), key economic characteristics (products, transportation), and, in thousands of entries, brief historical notes.
• Valuable supplements list more than 450 basic geographical terms from other languages with their English equivalents, give key English-language terms with their equivalents in other languages, and summarize essential features of often-used map projection systems.
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