A political map is a map that shows cultural features, like the political boundaries of countries, states, provinces, and cities.

A planar projection is a type of map in which the details of the globe are projected onto a plane (a flat surface) yielding a rectangular-shaped map. Cylindrical maps have a lot of distortion towards [..]

A geyser is a natural hot spring that occasionally sprays water and steam above the ground.

An archipelago is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean.

A geographical coordinate system is a system that uses latitude and longitude to describe points on the spherical surface of the globe.

A peninsula is a body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

Illustrated Glossary ofGeographic Terms

Altitude is the height of an area, measured from sea level.

The Antarctic Circle is an imaginary circle at latitude 66°30' S, around the south pole.

The analemma is a figure-8-shaped diagram that shows the declination of the sun (the angle that the sun is from the equator), for each day in the year. If you took a snapshot of the sun at the same ti [..]