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World 1:5,000,000
Title
World 1:5,000,000 [cartographic material] / compiled and drawn by the American Geographical Society of New York. Reprinted by AMS.
Edition
Editions vary.
Published
[Washington, D.C.] : Printed by Army Map Service, 1944-
Physical Description
maps : col. ; 95 x 13 cm or smaller.
Cartographic Detail
Scale 1:5,000,000.
Local Notes
LSFMAPR Series 11 1964: Imperfect: some sheets wanting. Includes multiple copies of some sheets.
Notes
Composite series. Includes various issues of sheets reprinted by AMS from AGS and D. Survey editions, and some published by D. Survey as its Series 1106. Some issues covering Latin America in 3 sheets or the Western Hemisphere in 5 sheets have varying titles: The Americas 1:5,000,000.--Map of the Americas 1:5,000,000. In some instances, these issues have series designations: Atlas of the Americas.
Sheets covering the Western Hemisphere are drawn on a bipolar oblique conic conformal projection. Eastern Hemisphere sheets are drawn on "a specially computed Miller oblated stereographic projection system."
Includes glossaries, indexes to adjoining sheets, scale departure diagrams, source notes, and tables of scale-conversion numbers.
Variant and related titles
Standard map series designation: [Series] 1106
Americas 1:5,000,000.
Map of the Americas 1:5,000,000.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 14, 2012
Series
Series 1106
Subjects
Genre/Form
World maps.
Also listed under
United States. Army Map Service.
United States Washington (D.C.)
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