Maps questions

Northern European countries are large, although sparsely populated. Sweden has an area of ​​450,000 sq km. Finland 338,000, Norway 323,000, Poland 312,000.

With an area of just 160 square kilometres Liechtenstein is the fourth smallest country in Europe after Vatican City, Monaco and San Marino.

The Mongol Empire existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest contiguous land empire in history. The British Empire was larger, but spread across all continents.

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is the smallest of the 50 U.S. states with an area of 3 144 km2.

Hawaii is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America, having received statehood on August 21, 1959. In March 1959, Congress passed the Hawaii Admission Act, which U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law. On June 27, 1959, a referendum asked residents of Hawaii to vote on the statehood bill; 94.3% voted in favor of statehood and only 5.7% opposed it.

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, named after George Washington. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital.

Ho Chi Minh City - 10° 46′ 36.8″ N, Bangkok - 13° 45′ 9″ N, Manila - 14° 34′ 48″ N and Mumbai - 18° 58′ 30″ N.

Washington, D.C. - 38° 54′ 17″ N, Beijing - 39° 55′ 0″ N, Tbilisi - 41° 43′ 0″ N, Rome - 41° 54′ 0″ N and Tokyo - 35° 41′ 0″ N.

Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century German-Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer. He was renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts. Mercator was one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography.

Uzbekistan is bordered by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Tajikistan to the southeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest.