Atlas of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

Summary

V. Dumitrescu reviews the Atlas of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, published in Prague in 1966 by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the Central Administration of Geodesy and Cartography. Prepared through interinstitutional collaboration according to the International Geographical Union’s national-atlas criteria, it contains seven thematic chapters, 58 plates and 433 maps, with English and Russian summaries, covering nature, population, the economy and living standards. The review describes the bases for urban classification, industrial comparison and agricultural statistics, alongside projections, scales and geographical nomenclature. Dumitrescu praises the quality of its compilation and printing.