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  2. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...

  3. Old World - Wikipedia

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    Old World. This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidore 's Etymologiae ( Augsburg, 1472), identifies the three known continents ( Asia, Europe and Africa) as respectively populated by descendants of Sem ( Shem ), Iafeth ( Japheth) and Cham ( Ham ). The " Old World " ( Latin: Mundus Vetus) is a term for Afro-Eurasia that ...

  4. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    It belongs to the Vietic branch and is closest to the Mường language . Like many languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Vietnamese is highly analytic and is tonal. It has head-initial directionality, with subject–verb–object order and modifiers following the words they modify. It also uses noun classifiers.

  5. World map - Wikipedia

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    World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  6. List of universities in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    These are local universities, under the management of the government and the people's committees of the provinces. These universities are usually multidisciplinary but small in size. No. English name. Vietnamese name. Location. 152. Hanoi Metropolitan University. Trường Đại học Thủ đô Hà Nội.

  7. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    In 1402, Yi Hoe and Kwan Yun created a world map largely based from Chinese cartographers called the Gangnido map. It is currently one of the oldest surviving world maps from East Asia. [64] Another notable pre-modern map is the Cheonhado map developed in Korea in the 17th century. [65]

  8. Ho Chi Minh City - Wikipedia

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    hochiminhcity .gov .vn. Ho Chi Minh City ( HCMC; Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh ), commonly known as Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn ), is the most populous city in Vietnam, with a population of around 10 million in 2023. [ 7] The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the eponymously-named Saigon River is the largest.

  9. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    November 2002; 21 years ago. ( 2002-11) The Vietnamese Wikipedia ( Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.