The Harmsworth Atlas 



Relative Values and 



BRITISH ISLES 





IreHsn 



and 



121.000 sq-miles 



SCANDINAVIAN 

 KINGDOMS 



Norway: 



124,000.: 



sqiti,; 



e 



den 

 Osq. miles 



ckholn 



15.000 sq-m. 



LOW 



COUNTRIES 



BrussS^ j3,000sqm. 



FRANCE 



IBERLAN PENINSULA 



&broHar(Br.} 



ITALY 



Ger^i^a 



erffcc 



omi 

 110,000 sq.mries 



faf-seUies 

 '^ Ccrsicalf 



207,000 sq.miles 



Comparisons. — I. Comparalive Areas. 



RUSSIA m EUROPE 



f-. 



GERMANY 



flambu 



gOg.OOO sq. miles 



BALKAN STATES 



"Rn nyn 



, 51,000 sqm.;^ 



TTI. 



Tinlaud^ 



AUSTRfA-HUNGARY 



Tr/e 



\ "Bosnia 



SWITZERLAND 



Berne ^ ^ 



26l,QQ0^sq. miles 



:*=*\.<^ 



16,000 sq. miles 





'Warsaw 

 Poland 



Grfteco 

 ^6,15,000 sqm. 



1,987,000 square miles 



UNITED 



STATE S 



ARGENTINA 

 1,200.000 square miles 



San fy-ancisco 



!' --■■■--. ■ 



i-i/Kiushiu 



'^.^i 



V:: 





JAPANESE EMPIRE 

 258,000 squnro milca 



.J^^:-. 



.-■'' '- 



u 



Mongol! a 





Sin -Itiang 



2,970.000 square miles 





T i "b 



"'^'"\ _ 



CHINESE EMPIRE 



4,277.000 square miles 





'^an^/;aJ 





Hainan 



The same uniform scale of i : 50,000,000, or 790 miles to the 

 inch, has been used for the above maps, as for those of the British 

 possessions on page 3, so that the vast extent of the British Empire 

 can be accurately compared with the area of the principal coimtries 

 of the world. With the exceptions of China and Japan, maps of the 

 Home Comitrics only are given on this page, but the diagrams below, 

 showing the extent of the chief Empires of the World, exhibit the 

 area of the Home Countries, and also of their colonies, dependencies, 

 or other possessions. 



Although the oceans really form one continuous sheet of water, 

 they are divided for convenience of reference into five great divisions. 

 The waters south of 40" S. lat. are frequently referred to as the 



Southern Ocean, but no exact limits are assigned to this division, 

 and it is included in the areas of the other oceans. The Arctic and 

 Antarctic Oceans are bounded towards the Equator by the Polar 

 Circles, but the relative proportion of sea and land round the South 

 Pole is still very conjecturah The land area of the globe is divided 

 into six Continents, but in reality there are only two great land 

 masses— the Old World and the New. Austraha is indifferenUy 

 described as the smallest continent or the largest island. There is 

 no natural division between Europe and Asia, as the mountain 

 range of the Urals forms a physical link between the two 

 Continents rather than a hne of demarcation, as is popularly 

 supposed. 



THE HOME & COLONIAL AREAS OF THE WORLD'S EMPIRES 



The home couptry is coloured red. 

 The colonies, dependendea and otiiey 

 ftossessiofts art cotoui-ed yeUovj 



Japan I 



J 76, pop 



ti< 





Spain '^a'y 

 195,000 U 0,000 



JflMltrt .^"tns Spsnifih lur.an 



.«:s?o '^mi ^"■°-- ^".°=- 



Germany 



209hO0O 



ffertuguesTj Gerrnan Empire 

 aaB.OOOsqin l,£37,0ClQ sqrn. 



BriUsh \s\e% 



Puasia in Europe 



121,000 sq.m. 



France 

 fi P05SG5aion3 



erilish Empire 

 11,903,000 sq.m. 



1,997.000 sq, ni. 



Russian Emnira, 

 3,660,000 sq, m. 



Unitoci Slates 

 2,970,000 sq. m. 



aq m. 



3.7od;coI>-s-<,7.. use'SiTo;;., ^^■'^ 





796,000 



AUSTRALIA 



3>450,000 

 sq. m. 



EUROPE i 3,865,000 



sq- m. 



S, AMERICA 6,320,000 3q, m. 



Nh AWERJCA 



9,300,000 3q. m. 



AFRfCA 11,520.000 sq.m. 



ASIA 17,000.000 sq,mile» 



ANTARCTIC OCEAfg 5,730.000 .q-m. 



.^^ ARCTIC OCEAN 5,790,000 3q,m. 



^f^DlAN OCEAN 27,700,000 sq. rn. 



ATLANTIC OCEAN 34,300,000 nq.m. 



AREAS OF THE CONTINENTS 



PACJFfC OCEAN 67,700,000 aq. 



mifes 



AREAS OF THE OCEANS 



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