Source:
GRID-Geneva (www.grid.unep.ch)
This map is based on the "PC World Data Base" product from ESRI (April 1990), having been significantly modified and enhanced at GRID-Geneva. Among changes made are the following:
- The "internal" boundaries of former Yugoslavia have been digitized, and the following states have been added: Bosnia-Hercegovina (BS), Croatia (CR) and Slovenia (SS);- The "internal" boundary for Czechoslovakia has been added, but national entities have not yet been named pending further clarification of the situation there;
- The fifteen independent republics of the former USSR (now, the Commonwealth of Independent States or C.I.S.) are upgraded to national status, and have proper country names applied;
- The boundary between the former East and West Germanies has been removed to form a single country, the Federal Republic of Germany;
- A large number of additional geographic entities have been added through digitization, and/or have had names applied where none were available. Also, name changes have been made for countries such as 'Burkina' to 'Burkina Faso', 'Burma' to 'Myanmar', etc.
Major cities were taken from another database, also from GRID:
The World Cities Population Database (WCPD) has been produced by the Birkbeck College of the University of London in 1990 at the request of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. The database contains head counts for 3000 cities world-wide which either have a population of over 100,000 or are capitals of their nation state.
Finally, each country has been linked to Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) for rich and current information on every country. For example: Australia
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