Atlas of World Geography Paperback – January 1, 2006

Just thought it would be larger

Nicely formatted 176 page world atlas covering basic educational aspects of Physical and Human Geography during the first 50 pages or so. The additional 126 pages depict each continent's land use, political, climate, population, physical maps, indexes and details about that continent's unique attributes.This atlas works for middle schoolers through college age students. It is NOT Goode's World Atlas that I used in college physical and economic geography courses decades ago, but it is a 6th Edition with a 2019 copyright. It is very current in a rapidly changing world of political geography and country name changes. As a lifelong learner and former international airline pilot, I carried a similar edition in my flight bag while traveling the world.This book is paperback with a nice glossy cover and the pages are colorful and well produced. Due to the approx 8.5 x 11 inch format, you will lose a little detail on some maps as you get near page centers due to the binding process. Minor issue for me.Nice addition to my desk reference library to better understand today's world events in distant locales. For the price, this is a well written atlas.

This is a very pretty atlas. But there really isn’t a good map key for the maps. And there are only a few pages on Canada. It didn’t even have all the capitals of the provinces. My kids had to find the ones that were there and deduct where the others were. The US was ok and all the other regions we haven’t needed yet. I am ordering a map that’s a little more expensive. You get what you pay for with this. The description pumps it way up. It is not all it sounds like.

We had versions of this and the historical atlases (US and World) from the 1990's and the books simply fell apart from use. Just love the series. I prefer the original binding to the glued binding - the one with old fashioned staples - because the binding broke on the World history atlas, but the maps are great. Lots of detail and perspective of surrounding areas and comparative sizes. It is great for those times when something comes up in a movie or on the news (Chernobyl, for instance) and someone says, "How far IS Chernobyl from Minsk and Kiev?" Out comes this paper atlas and viola! an answer - and more.

My daughters 7th grade teacher required this book for class. She has really enjoyed the beautiful pictures. Nice quality pages/binding make this book very sturdy!

We really like all the extra tidbits but wish the maps were a little more clear. Too many of them are spread across two pages and it's hard to read what's in the middle. All in all though, a good resource.

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If you want an atlas that would allow you to quickly and efficiently learn country names and capitals and their geographic location, then this book isn't the one to buy. I wanted and expected clear, concise, thorough political maps, and this just doesn't have it. For example, the political map of Europe is presented on two pages, and for some reason highways between major cities is included, which makes the map resemble something akin to bloodshot eyes, but yet the political map of Africa is presented without a single highway included, which makes it much easier to read yet begs the question why include highways for the former and not the latter? For me, a good way to judge an atlas is how it presents the West Indies, and this is a jumbled mess that totally omits some countries and labels some with print so small that a magnifying glass is needed. Even the presentation of the US is seriously lacking, with some states chopped up and placed in different regions.I suspect this atlas was assembled and printed before it was distributed for comments. They should have done much better.

A great intro to world geography - both physical and human/political.First section has lots of really interesting facts on our planet (longest rivers, biggest lakes, most active volcanoes etc etc) then there are sections for each continent with intro/headline info followed by detailed maps - both physical and human/political.Hopefully my daughter won't be asking questions like "Is Belgium in Austria?" or saying things like "Africa is a country" going forward! And she's 31 and has a degree (not in geography I hasten to add!) so lord knows what they taught her in school!