Maps of the world

With Google maps and GPS instructions at the ready, it isn’t often that we step back to look at maps of the wider world. Long gone are the days when you had to flip open a physical map on your cross-country trip, to say nothing of the wealth of maps that exist today, from satellite imagery to geographic surveys, cityscapes to political maps. We present a few of the beautiful maps in the Oxford Atlas of the World to help us look at Earth in a different way.




Satellite Image of the Panama Canal
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Maps of town plans of St.Petersburg, Santiago, Sao Paulo, and Seoul
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Map of the Eastern Mediterranean
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Satellite Image of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Map of the South Arabian Peninsula
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Maps of Rome and San Francisco
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Satellite Image of Europe
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Satellite image of Europe continued
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Map of Korea
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Maps of Jerusalem, Johannesburg, and Karachi
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Map of Northern Italy
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Satellite Map of London, United Kingdom
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Oxford’s Atlas of the World — the only world atlas updated annually, guaranteeing that users will find the most current geographic information — is the most authoritative resource on the market. The milestone Twentieth Edition is full of crisp, clear cartography of urban areas and virtually uninhabited landscapes around the globe, maps of cities and regions at carefully selected scales that give a striking view of the Earth’s surface, and the most up-to-date census information. The acclaimed resource is not only the best-selling volume of its size and price, but also the benchmark by which all other atlases are measured.

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