National Atlases

Summary

This report reviews significant volumes of maps representing twenty-six nations and territories. A national atlas aims at the cartographical representation of the physical, biogeographical, economic, cultural and political features of a national territory. Several of the works include descriptive texts in one or more languages and gazetteers. Canada, France, Italy and Russia are represented in the report, but it has been the smaller countries such as Czechoslovakia, Belgian Congo, Indonesia, Denmark and Switzerland that have produced outstanding atlases.