View the world with a spirit of discovery. National Geographic’s decorative and educational “World Explorer Map” depicts nations in sharp, rich colors, and mountains in shaded relief. The precise, up-to-date political map is artistically detailed with charts describing world land masses and populations. Using the Winkel Tripel projection technique, the cartographers created an accurate rendering of a sphere on a flat surface.

The National Geographic map is designed using the Winkel Tripel projection, which reduces the distortion of land masses near the poles. Inset charts list the largest cities and countries. It is printed at a scale of 1 inch to every 820 miles.