National Geographic's Gift to America: An Updated World Map

From: Precinct Reporter | Date: September 10, 1998 | Copyright information

Precinct Reporter
09-10-1998
National Geographic's Gift to America: An Updated World Map

WASHINGTON--The National Geographic Society is marking the new millennium with a gift to America's children: Every school in the United States is to receive a 4 by 6 laminated, updated map of the world.

Each of the nation's more than 100,000 public and private schools will receive the two-sided map this month. One side shows the political world as of June 1998; the other is a digital picture of the physical world based on images collected by satellite.

"In the closing decade of this century entire ...

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