FACTOID # 64: Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world - and the highest rate of female suicide.
 
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Encyclopedia > Map (disambiguation)
Look up map in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • A map is a simplified depiction 2-dimensional representation of a space, a navigational aid.
  • In programming, map is a higher-order function, used to apply a function to a list of values and return another list with the results.

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Map (697 words)
Many maps have a scale, determining how large objects on the map are in relation to their actual size.
If the map covers a large area of the surface of a globe, such as the Earth, it also has a projection, a way of translating the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture.
The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the geographical is to show features of physical geography such as mountains, soil type or land use.
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