Collins World Atlas

Book excerpt: A new, fully updated edition of this popular atlas in the stylish and authoritative Collins world atlas range. Designed in the distinctive Collins style, it is the ideal reference atlas for school, home and business use. This is a great value world atlas with more place names (over 80,000) and mapping than any other atlas at this price. Discover more about our world, continent by continent, with this Collins World Atlas, which has been brought fully up-to-date to reflect all recent changes. The highly detailed yet clear and accessible maps give balanced worldwide coverage, and the atlas includes beautifully illustrated thematic pages. Also includes maps of the world's physical features, details of all the world's states and territories, a map of world's time zones, internet links and thousands of facts and key world statistics, including world and continental ranking tables, to enhance your knowledge of the world today. Updates include: * Over 1,500 name changes Country name change from Czech Republic to Czechia (Czech Republic) * New administrative regions in France * Major revision to roads and railways in China * Revision to major city populations * Addition of Moroccan Berm (security wall) in Western Sahara * Latest UNESCO World Heritage sites