Book description
Day after day more and more places are mentioned in the newspapers, on the radio, and on television. It may be possible to follow world affairs and world problems without knowing anything about Queen Maud Land or Okinawa, Ruanda and Burundi or Surinam, but few people have more than a vague impression even of such important places as Formosa, Turkey, or Venezuela.
This book sets out to help the reader who is not a specialist in geography to find his way about the world and to provide him with facts about the location, population, size, and activities of the more important countries in it. Most of the material in this book is geographical in nature, but many questions cannot be considered, even from a purely geographical viewpoint, without reference to history, politcs, and economics.
