Product Description

This mini edition has been planned to provide balanced coverage of every part of the world in a series of reference maps, specially designed and created for this format to show detailed information at a small scale. The index to over 20,000 place names illustrates the scope of the atlas. The atlas includes over 100 pages of reference maps showing cities and towns, roads and railways; world and continent maps clearly locating every country in the world and providing information on landscape, climate and population; and data for each country including area, population, capital city and currency.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1071639 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 253 pages

Review
Up-to-date, clear and authoritative mapping Outstanding detail at a small scale Index to over 20,000 place names Deluxe format makes this the ideal gift

Customer Reviews

The entire world packed in a mini-sized book
The smallest edition in the Collins range of World atlases is this mini edition, which is generated entirely from digital databases. The maps are politically coloured, and include railways, main roads and especially a lot of places. The maps are amazingly accurate. The balance world coverage is reasonably well done, although especially Israel and the Eastern U.S.A. deserve larger scale mapping. There is not too much thematic content, although a statistical section of the world's states and territories is included. Of course, you can't expect to find all small towns in this mini-sized world atlas, but its index size of some 20,000 entries is matched by no other atlas of this size range. There is both a hardcover and a paperback edition, so this one is affordable for all. Recommended for anyone who wants a small but information-packed overview of the countries of the world. By the way, the maps have also been used in the Times Mini Edition World Atlas, but there colour relief shading has been added.