World map with countries labeled

World map labeled

World Map is a representation of the surface of the Earth. World Political Map consists international boundries of countries with country name. Each country has it's boundary by which it is sorounded by other countries called neighbouring countries. The total (206) listed states of the United Nations which are depicted on the world map are divided into three categories: 193 member states, 2 observer states, and 11 other states. 191 sovereign states, are the countries which are official sovereign, and are no disputes linger. The depicted Map of the world is current as on date January 01, 2019.

Map showing the locations of 238 countries in the world.

What is a Map?

Map is a graphical or pictorial representation of objects which is similar to each other. In context to geography the cities, states, rivers, forest etc are object and representation of these objects on a surface like on a piece of paper is called a map. With the help of Maps one can easily finds the area or the place which they are looking for. Maps helps in finding the direction from one point to another, find the route from particular place, a river, a forest etc. Map can be made for the representation of any object like place, rivers, forest, mountains, natural resources, weathers and many more.

World

World consists of 510,072,000 km² of total area in which 148,940,000 km² area have land and 361,132,000 km² area under water. Approx 70.8% of world's area are under water. Below is the List of Countries by Area.

On this day in history

217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.

168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.

813 - Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.