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The introductions of the country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English.
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World history
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Atlas of world history
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Pangaea |
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Animated map from Pangaea to present |
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Laurasia and Gondwana |
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Development of the Earth |
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North American craton |
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The northern Iceshield |
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The northern continents during Pleistocene |
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The World in 2000 BCE
uninhabited
- Red outline indicates areas of bronze working, c. 2000 BCE.
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The World in 1000 BCE
uninhabited
- Pink outline indicates area of bronze working, c. 1000 BCE.
- Red outline indicates area of iron working, c. 1000 BCE.
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The World in 500 BCE
uninhabited
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The World in 323 BCE
uninhabited
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The World in 200 BCE
uninhabited
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World in 820 |
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Eurasia before 1200 |
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Empires in 1898 |
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World War I (animated map):
Allies
Allied colonies, dominions, territories or occupied territory
Central powers
Central powers' colonies or occupied territory
Neutral
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Colonization in 1945 |
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Belgian colonial empire |
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British colonial empire |
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Danish colonial empire |
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Dutch colonial empire |
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French colonial empire |
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German colonial empire |
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Italian colonial empire |
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Portuguese colonial empire |
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Russian empire |
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Spanish colonial empire |
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The Cold War (1959) |
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Communist expansion |
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The Cold War (1980) |
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The world in 1985 |
Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
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