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.

Features include:
* 200 Flags of the world’s major states and territories
* 21 City centre maps: transport (road, rail, trams, light railways, bus and railway stations) and places of interest including religious buildings (churches, abbeys, cathedrals, synagogues, shrines, temples, mosques), museums, galleries, theatres, palaces, castles, parks, gardens, zoos, shopping centres, hospitals, Tourist Centres.
* World city distance table
* World time zones map
* Country comparisons table – the population and areas of the world’s top 100 most populous countries
* Physical comparisons– largest oceans, longest rivers, biggest islands, highest peaks, deepest trenches.
* Continental Comparator – for each one we show area, coldest place, hottest place, wettest place, driest place
* World topographic maps – with coloured contour layers and hill-shading clearly outlining the Earth’s surface.
* World political maps – the latest boundary and geopolitical changes.
* Index of approx. 15,000 place-names – with geographical features like mountains, lakes and deserts, as well as towns.

Britain’s best-selling secondary school atlas, now in its 101st Edition. The contents are divided into colour-coded sections for rapid reference.

The physical maps of the United Kingdom and Ireland are accompanied by thematic maps on numerous key social and economic themes. World topographical maps, with thematic maps on topics such as climate, population and economics, are followed by 30 pages of World thematic maps.

Completing the atlas is a section of World social and economic statistics, and an index with letter-figure grid references as well as latitude and longitude co-ordinates.

Available in both hardback and paperback formats, Philip’s Modern School Atlas 101st Edition is an unbeatable combination of highly detailed physical mapping backed up by enlightening thematic maps.