Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world is ... seven continents and five oceans. Europe is a continent.

The number of countries in the world does not change very often, but when it does, mapmakers (and their digital counterparts) ...

The past 100 years have seen another world ... day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map ...

Both maps reveal the great challenge the ... a magnificent reminder of Europe’s first efforts to chart the world as they were coming to know it.

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.