Atlases

Color Land form Atlas of the United States: Topographical and political maps to the county level for each of the fifty states; each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state (States listed in alphabetical order)

HIstorical Atlas of the Twentieth Century: Interactive maps which summarize the historical happenings of the 20th century; find information about systems of government, wars, socio-economic trends, population, specific events, specific countries, and more

Maps and References: United States (National, State, City), world, solar system, weather, some maps are interactive

National Atlas of the United States of America: Click on Interactive Map Browser. This program allows you to select and display map layers. Travel across America and zoom in to reveal more detail. Point at map features to learn more about them. Locate 2 million geographic names in the United States.

National Geographer's Map Machine: Country maps, facts, flags, resources, political, physical (Listed in alphabetical order)

Map Collection: 230,000 maps covering every area of the world (Listed in alphabetical order)

Xpeditions@nationalgeographic.com: \Nearly 600 National Geographic maps at your fingertips.

...an atlas is a collection of maps or charts bound into one volume?
...atlases contain information about specific regions of the world? An atlas gives information about a particular region's population, industries, resources, cities, and other important facts.
...a Greek scholar, Ptolemy, created the first known atlas in 150 A.M.?
...in 1585, Gerard's Mercature created a collection of maps, and named his collection after the Greek god, Atlas? His title, Atlas, has remained since then.
...Gerard's Mercatoria named his book after Atlas because the Greeks believed that the Greek god, Atlas, held the world on his shoulders?
...atlases were first drawn and designed by hand?
...mapmakers knew little about the world's land masses until the 1500's? Before then, mapmakers had to guess the size and shape of every continent.
...the largest atlas in the world today is the World Atlas because it contains maps of all of the continents, countries, and states in the world?

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