Philip's RGS World Atlas

The highest peak? The deepest ocean trench? The wettest, driest, longest, largest - we list the world's fascinating extremes. Crammed with practical information like a Distance Chart for World Cities, World Time Zones, 200 State Flags and the top 100 most populous countries, we include around 15,000 places indexed for easy checking. Whether for the pub quiz, travel planning or school reference, this great value handy world atlas is crammed with everything you need to know. Alongside the topography and physical attributes of the earth we also show political boundaries and the great global cities, including transport hubs and places of interest from mosques to temples, palaces to zoos and shopping centres to tourist information centres. For this new edition, the maps have been fully updated to show the newly inaugurated capital of Indonesia, the new name for Kazakhstan's capital, renamed provinces in India, city name changes in Ukraine and much more. The physical and political statistics are the most recent available.