Presents an overview of the countries of the world, explaining how to look at a map, where people live n the Earth, and major countries and regions.

Provides information about the geography of each of the continents, including landforms, bodies of water, climate, plants, animals, population, and flags, and about the poles and the oceans.

Maps of the different regions of the world show their geographic, cultural, and economic features. Includes text describing the individual countries.

Maps and text provide information on the geography, industries, and other vital facts of the countries of the world.

Discusses such topics as the formation and periodic changes of the earth's surface, historical attempts to draw accurate world maps, and the earth's various resources. Also includes physical, political, cultural, and faunal maps of six continents and a composite map of Antarctica.

Text, photographs, paintings, and maps explore the history of astronomy, the solar system, the universe, and new space discoveries.