This full-color Political Map of the World is easy-to-read, accurate, up-to-date, and user friendly. The map has included continents, countries, lakes, lines of longitude and latitude, major cities, national flags, oceans, rivers, seas, and time zones. This map uses the Robinson Projection one of the most accurate and authentic world map projections for portraying the Earth. This flat portrayal of the spherical Earth minimizes the distortion in relative sizes at high altitudes while maintaining reasonable perspective of shapes and area for continents in the middle and low altitudes. Also displayed are national flags, international time zones, and maps of both polar caps.