Thematic Maps
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Maps, Thematic
maps that show certain natural or social phenomena in relation to the basic topographic elements (the geography). There are agricultural, agroclimatic, bathymetric, botanical, climatic, demographic, economic geographic, forest, geobotanical, geochemical, geological, geomorphological, hy-drological, industrial, landscape, land use, paleogeographic, soil, synoptic, tectonic, topographic, and zoological thematic maps.
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