Iquitos was put on the world map during the rubber boom in the late 1800s.
Because of that, it is once again on the world map in a significantly impartial way.
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Mayor of Dunedin Dave Cull said that the announcement puts Dunedin on the world map as a first-class literary city.
Two hundred years ago, New Bedford put itself on the world map with its investment in a whaling fleet.
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"If Europe does not advance it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map, " Mr Hollande said.
The singleplayer needs the most work of all the modes, for the existing world map looks like a crappy alpha.
Using that entirely automated system and data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the entire world map was carved in just over two minutes.
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Together, they came to epitomize what has been called the golden age of conservatism an age where their policies changed the world map.
And when you want to tackle the city's culinary breadth, "Toronto as a world map" breaks down the dining and dancing scene of four international neighbourhoods.
In our hands-on demo, we stared at a world map, and then used the scroll wheel on a mouse to zoom in on that particular country.
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In 2008, Cameroon was among the first African countries to contribute to the OneGeology initiative, which aims to make a single trans-national geological world map accessible online.
Until three years ago, Star City, the cosmonaut training centre on the outskirts of Moscow, was that place -- a secret military facility that was unmarked on the world map.
Women film-makers have already performed the considerable feat of putting Iranian cinema on the world map while trying to portray women's relationship with Iran and its Islamic revolution.
The site contains a colourful world map that changes according the criteria chosen, and users can even compare one country to another based on what is most important to them.
At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
In four clicks on an iPad it's possible to change the screen from a view of a world map to a graph of toothpaste prices in India and a sales comparison that shows local brands are gaining share.
Crowd-sourced cartography is getting hot, too: in late May the company Telenav, which supplies maps to carmakers, said it would switch to OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free editable world map, from its previous suppliers, which had included Nokia and TomTom.
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However, Bauer later admitted as we drove down the steep, rocky road, back into the valley, that the most important thing is to educate wine drinkers on the basics: Where New Zealand is on the world map, where Central Otago is and what wines are produced there.
They are, depending on your perspective, either pursuing the ultimate vanity project or are on the forefront of a new age of exploration that harkens back to the great adventurers of centuries past when men (and they were nearly all men) ventured into the vast blank spots on the world map.
And along with his brother Julio he put California on the world wine map.
"Now here's a site, the sphinx and the pyramids, probably the most famous ancient site in the world no map, " Ludwig says.
All sections of the community appeared to have turned out to pay their last respects to a man who put the town on the world sporting map.
It includes classroom and extra-curricular activities as well as student activity sheets, and provides a series of enlarged photographs of World Heritage sites, a poster, a World Heritage map and stickers to be used for classroom discussions.
They will miss discovering that the world on a map is nothing if not an invitation to dream.
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If you look on the BBC World Service plan map, you will see that Southern Spain is one of the areas identified as a particular area of concern.
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With crippled economies and fragile societies, they are barely on the world's economic map.
Without the level, we couldn't engage in precision construction, build things like high-rises or accurately map our world.
First, they would map the world country by country and take an inventory of existing friends, allies, neutrals, opponents and enemies.
Wikipedia has a map of world antipodes that you can look at.
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