Large map of the world with countries in full screen. Geographic map

Let's start with a sensational statement: the first drawing of a person was a map... Yes, not a hunting scene, but a plan view of the area. Perhaps it was a drawing with a twig on the sand, explaining to fellow tribesmen how to get to the coveted backwater on the river or a place where there is a lot of game.

Since those ancient times, drawing maps has been one of the most demanded services that very rare masters could provide. They cost significant value in return, especially if they were accurate and reliable.

On this page, you can see a large map of the world with countries in Russian, expanding it to full screen, decide on the route of future travels, or awaken nostalgic memories of the past days of vacation. For their reliability we "give a grudge", because these are images from space and errors on them are excluded. If there is already a river, a forest, a beach, then they really exist.

The source of such cartographic wealth is the Internet resource Google map and service from Yandex... Using satellite maps of the world is very simple - they have two main control functions:

• change of scale;
• the way of displaying the relief.

If you want to get a general idea of \u200b\u200bthe area, then it is enough to open a "scheme" that will allow you to carry out "strategic planning" - to determine the position of cities and points that must be visited.

Much more opportunities to learn about the details of the relief are provided by the "satellite mode" of display, which recognizes terrain elements 10-15 meters long:

• roads;
• glades;
• area;
• infrastructure;
• separate rocks and peaks.

The political map of the world with countries in large in Russian is also included in our list of useful tools in a static form, you can see it below.

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The whole world can fit on one sheet of the map, with all the oceans, continents, mountains and plains, countries, cities, minerals, animals and birds. You just need to be able to read the map correctly. In this lesson, we will learn what maps were in antiquity, and what types of maps are now, what are the advantages of a map over a globe, what is the scale, the legend of the map. We will learn to use the scale of depths and heights, determine the coordinates of terrestrial objects.

Topic: The planet we live on

People started drawing maps even before they thought about whether the earth was round or flat. Scientists have discovered in Kamchatka a drawing on a bone depicting a path to a place rich in booty. This is probably one of the oldest maps. Maps were drawn on pieces of bark, carved on wooden planks, which were convenient to take on the road. Some peoples scratched maps with a sharp object on damp clay tiles, which, after drying, became durable, with a clear image.

This world map, in the center of which the city of Babylon is located, more than 3 thousand years.

Fig. 1. World map of Ancient Babylon ()

Rock paintings of the area were also found in caves where people lived thousands of years ago.

Fig. 2. Rock painting of the area ()

With the invention of paper, cards began to be drawn on it. All information obtained by scientists and travelers during their wanderings in different lands was applied to the maps.

Fig. 3. Ancient map of the world on paper ()

The production of the map was a lengthy process, as all the details were drawn by hand, so the maps were very expensive.

For a long period of time, only four were present on the maps: Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America. Many years passed before sailors discovered Australia and Antarctica.

When you look for a country on the globe, you see only one hemisphere. And to see something else, the globe must be rotated.

It is impossible to designate a large number of geographic objects on a globe without increasing its size. A large globe is inconvenient for travel use.

Scaleis the ratio of the length of the lines on a map or drawing to the actual length. The scale of the physical map of Russia tells us that each centimeter of the map corresponds to 200 km on the ground.

Fig. 7. Physical map of Russia ()

On the map, you can show two halves of the Earth at once. If you divide the globe along the equator, you get map of the northern and southern hemispheres,

Fig. 5. Northern and Southern Hemispheres

and if along the line of the prime meridian - Western and Eastern Hemispheres.

Fig. 6. Western and Eastern Hemispheres

On minerals map Places of mineral deposits are marked with special icons.

Fig. 9. Mineral resources map ()

On animal habitat maps the habitats of various species of birds and animals are indicated.

Fig. 10. Map of habitats of birds and animals ()

On contour maps no color coding and depicted, but not signed, all kinds of geographic objects. They are convenient for planning routes.

Fig. 11. Contour map

On political map the world shows countries and their borders.

Fig. 12. Political map of Eurasia ()

On synoptic charts the conditional icons show the observations of the weather.

Fig. 13. Synoptic map ()

Different cards combine in atlases.

Fig. 14. Geographic Atlas ()

Maps depict different territories. There are maps of districts, cities, regions, states, continents, oceans, hemisphere maps and world maps.

Symbols on the map are the same as on the globe. They're called legendand are usually placed at the bottom of the card.

Let's find the West Siberian Plain on the physical map of Russia.

Fig. 16. West Siberian Plain ()

Small horizontal lines covering a large part of its territory mean swamps.

Here are some of the largest swamps in the world - Vasyugan. Lines represent rivers, borders and roads, circles represent cities.

Fig. 17. Vasyugan swamps

The seas and mountains have real outlines and are painted in different colors. Blue and light blue - reservoirs, yellow - hills, green - lowlands, brown - mountains.

At the bottom of the map, a scale of depths and heights is placed, with the help of which you can see what height or depth means a particular shade of color on the map.

The deeper the ocean, the darker the color. On the map of the Arctic Ocean, the darkest shade of blue in the Greenland Sea, where the depth reaches 5 thousand 527 meters; the lightest shade of pale blue, where the sea is 200 meters deep.

Fig. 18. Physical map of the Arctic Ocean

The higher the mountains, the darker the color with which they are designated. Thus, the Ural Mountains, which are considered relatively low (the highest peaks are from 1000 to 2000 m above sea level), are colored light brown on the map.

Fig. 19. Ural mountains

Himalayas - the highest mountains in the world (10 peaks with a height of more than 8 km) are marked in dark brown.

Fig. 20. Himalayan mountains

In the Himalayas, Chomolungma (Everest) is located - the highest peak in the world (8848 m).

Using the scale of heights, it is easy to determine the height of the Caucasus Mountains.

Fig. 23. Caucasus Mountains

Their brown color indicates that the height of the mountains is over 5 thousand meters. The most famous peaks - Mount Elbrus (5642 m) and Mount Kazbek (5033 m) are covered with eternal snow and glaciers.

Using a map, you can determine the exact location of an object. To do this, you need to know him coordinates: latitude and longitude, which are determined by the degree grid formed by the parallels and meridians.

Fig. 26. Degree grid

The equator serves as the origin - on it the latitude is 0⁰. Latitude is measured from 0⁰ to 90⁰ on either side of the equator and is called north or south. For example, latitude 60⁰ north means that this point lies in the Northern Hemisphere and is at 60⁰ to the equator.

Fig. 27. Geographic latitude

Longitude is measured from 0⁰ to 180⁰ on both sides of the Greenwich meridian and is called west or east.

Fig. 28. Geographic longitude

Coordinates Saint Petersburg - 60⁰ N, 30⁰ E

The coordinates of Moscow are 55⁰ N, 37⁰ E.

Fig. 29. Political map of Russia ()

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1. Find the Pacific Ocean on the physical map of the world. Determine its deepest place, indicate its name and depth. Describe how you defined this location.
2. Make a short quiz (4 questions with 3 possible answers) on the topic "Maps".
3. Prepare a memo with the rules for working with cards.

Political Map– geographical map of the globe, continent or region, which reflects the territorial and political division. The main elements of the map content are the borders of states and dependent territories, capitals, large cities, sometimes routes of communication are displayed on a political map, the borders of autonomous formations within states with a federal structure, capitals and centers of administrative-territorial divisions.

In the modern world, there are more than 250 countries... They are diverse in their place in the international division of labor and in international relations, in terms of the level of economic development, in terms of the size of the territory, in terms of population, in terms of its ethnic and national composition, in terms of geographic location and in many other indicators. 193 states are members of the United Nations (as of 01.01.2018) and 2 observer states: Holy See (Vatican) and the State of Palestine.

The variety of countries in the modern world.

The countries of the world are grouped according to different criteria. For example, stand out sovereign, independent countries (about 193 out of 250) and dependent countries and territories. Dependent countries and territories can have different names: possessions - the term " colonies»Not used since 1971 (there are very few of them left), overseas departments and territories, self-governing territories. So, Gibraltar is owned by the UK; Isle Reunion in the Indian Ocean, country Guiana in South America, overseas departments of France; island country Puerto Rico declared a "freely affiliated state to the United States."

Grouping of countries by territory size:

• very large countries(territory over 3 million sq. km): Russia (17.1 million sq. Km), Canada (10 million sq. Km), China (9.6 million sq. Km), USA (9.4 million sq. Km), Brazil (8.5 million sq. Km), Australia (7.7 million sq. Km), India (3.3 million sq. Km);
• large countries(have an area of \u200b\u200bmore than 1 million km2): Algeria, Libya, Iran, Mongolia, Argentina, etc .;
• averageand small countries: these include most of the states of the world - Italy, Vietnam, Germany, etc.
• micro-states: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican. These also include Singapore and the island states of the Caribbean and Oceania.

By population, there are 10 largest countries in the world : China (1,318 million people); India (1132 million people); USA (302 million people); Indonesia (232 million people); Brazil (189 million people); Pakistan (169 million people); Bangladesh (149 million people); Nigeria (144 million) Russia (142 million people); Japan (128 million people). The population of countries is constantly changing, so this “big ten” is also changing. Most of the countries of the world belong to the states of average population (less than 100 million people): Iran, Ethiopia, Germany, etc. The smallest countries in terms of population are micro-states. The Vatican, for example, has a population of 1,000.

State system, forms of government and administrative-territorial structure of the countries of the world.

The countries of the world also differ in forms of government and by forms of territorial-state structure.

There are two main forms of government: republics , where the legislative power usually belongs to the parliament, and the executive power belongs to the government (USA, Germany), and monarchies where power belongs to the monarch and is inherited (Brunei, Great Britain).

Most countries in the world have a republican form of government. There are presidential republics, where the president heads the government and has great powers (USA, Guinea, Argentina, etc.), and parliamentary republics, where the role of the president is less, and the head of the executive branch is the prime minister appointed by the president. There are currently monarchies 29 .

Among the monarchies, constitutional and absolute are distinguished. When constitutional monarchy the power of the monarch is limited by the constitution and the activities of parliament: the real legislative power usually belongs to the parliament, and the executive power belongs to the government. At the same time, the monarch “reigns, but does not rule,” although his political influence is quite large. Such monarchies include Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Japan, etc.

When absolute monarchy the power of the ruler is not limited by anything. There are only six states with this form of government in the world now: Brunei, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Vatican.

The so-called theocratic monarchies , i.e. countries where the head of state is at the same time its religious head (Vatican and Saudi Arabia).

There are countries that have a specific form of government. These include states that are part of the so-called Commonwealth (until 1947 it was called the "British Commonwealth of Nations"). The Commonwealth is an association of countries that includes Great Britain and many of its former colonies, dominions and dependent territories (total 50 states). It was originally created by Great Britain to preserve its economic and military-political positions in the previously owned territories and countries. IN 16 countries of the Commonwealth, the head of state is formally considered british queen... The largest of them are Canada, Australia, New Zealand. In them, the head of state is the Queen of Great Britain, represented by the governor-general, and the legislature is parliament.

By forms of government distinguish unitary and federated country.

IN unitary the state has a single constitution, a single executive and legislative power, and the administrative-territorial units are endowed with minor powers and are directly subordinate to the central government (France, Hungary).

IN federal the state, along with uniform laws and authorities, there are other state formations - republics, states, provinces, etc., in which their own laws are adopted, they have their own authorities, that is, the members of the federation have a certain political and economic independence. But their activities should not contradict federal laws (India, Russia, USA). Most of the countries of the world are unitary, there are now a little more than 20 federal states in the world. The federal form of the state is characteristic both for multinational (Pakistan, Russia) countries, and for countries with a relatively homogeneous ethnic composition of the population (Germany).

Lesson summary "Modern political map of the world".

The geographic map of the world is an overview map of the relief of the earth's surface. The geographic map of the world has a coordinate grid. The geographical map of the world does not display individual states and countries to generalize and simplify the display of the surface relief above sea level (the darker the color, the higher the surface). The geographic map of the world clearly and concisely shows information about the main continents, seas and oceans and allows you to quickly create an image of the relief of the whole world. Look at the geographical maps of the world online in Russian:

Detailed geographic map of the world in Russian:

Geographic map of the world close up in Russian - opens in a new window full screen. All continents with the names of Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica and Australia are shown on the geographical map of the world in high resolution.

The geographic map of the Earth shows the location of the oceans: Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Indian Ocean. A large geographic map of the world allows you to see the seas, islands, peninsulas, bays, straits, lakes, deserts, plains and mountains. The geographic map of the world is a map of the globe and looks like a map of continents, seas and oceans. The geographic map of the world can be downloaded for free in good quality.

Geographical map of the world in Russian large format:

Geographic map of the world with coordinates of latitude and longitude, showing the currents of the world's oceans close-up:

Geographic map of the world in Russian large format opens in a new window full screen. The high-resolution geographic map of the world shows a large-scale map of the world in good quality in Russian with parallels and meridians, with oceans and seas, with latitude and longitude, with seas and oceans. The geographical map of the world shows the plains, mountains and rivers, continents and continents of the globe. If you enlarge the geographical map of the world, you can see a separate geographical map of each continent.

Outline map of the world

Geography lessons at school often require an outline map of the world:

The contour geographic map of the world opens in a new window in full screen.

What to see on the geographical map of the world:

First of all, on the geographical map of the world, the mountains and plains are striking, marked with different colors (the darker the color, the higher the mountains). The highest mountains on a geographical map are indicated by the height of the peak above sea level. The largest rivers on the map are named. The largest cities are also indicated on the geographical map of the world. This map immediately shows where the oceans, seas, islands and lakes are located.

Continents and continents: Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica. The largest continent is Eurasia.

Oceans of the world: there are four oceans in the world - Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic and Indian. The largest ocean in the world - Pacific Ocean.

Largest seas in the world by descending area: the largest sea in the world - Sargasso Seafollowed by the Philippine Sea, Coral Sea, Arabian Sea, South China Sea, Tasman Sea, Fiji Sea, Weddell Sea, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Bering Sea, Bay of Bengal, Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk, Gulf of Mexico, Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea, Scotia Sea, Hudson Bay, Greenland Sea, Somov Sea, Riiser-Larsen Sea, Sea of \u200b\u200bJapan, Arafura Sea, East Siberian Sea.

The largest islands in the world by descending area: the largest island in the world - Greenlandfollowed by the islands: New Guinea, Kalimantan, Madagascar, Baffin Land, Sumatra, Great Britain, Honshu, Victoria, Ellesmere, Sulawesi, South Island (New Zealand), Java, North Island (New Zealand), Luzon, Newfoundland, Cuba, Iceland, Mindanao, Ireland, Hokkaido, Haiti, Sakhalin, Banks, Sri Lanka.

The longest rivers in the world: the largest river in the world - Amazon, followed by the rivers: Nile, Mississippi - Missouri - Jefferson, Yangtze, Yellow River, Ob - Irtysh, Yenisei - Angara - Selenga - Ider, Lena - Vitim, Amur - Argun - Muddy channel - Kerulen, Congo - Lualaba - Luvua - Luapula - Chambeshi, Mekong, Mackenzie - Slave - Peace - Finlay, Niger, La Plata - Parana - Rio Grande, Volga - Kama.

The highest mountains with a height of more than 8 km: the largest mountain in the world - Chomolungma, a little lower are the mountains: Chogori, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho-Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Nangaparbat, Annapurna I, Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum II and Shishabangma.

The largest lakes by continent: Lake Victoria in Africa, Lake Vostok in Antarctica, in Asia - the salty Caspian Sea and fresh lake Baikal, in Australia Lake Eyre, in Europe - the salty Caspian Sea and fresh Ladoga Lake, in North America - Lake Michigan-Huron, in South America - Maracaibo salt lake and Titicaca freshwater lake. The largest lake in the world is the Caspian Sea.

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