The map shows the whole world in an equirectangular projection and contains the shapes of all sovereign states' territory as well as antarctica.
<p>The data source is not the CIA Factbook, but Natural Earth. Looks not as vectorish if you zoom in.
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For further information about the creation of this map, see the Discussion Page.
Tom Patterson, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and others from naturalearthdata.com, Bjørn Sandvik
Natural Earth - naturalearthdata.com, derived data from Google Fusion Table - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://blog.thematicmapping.org/">http://blog.thematicmapping.org/</a>