Political Map of the World: Capitol Hill Edition 36 x 53
The Political Map of the World: Capitol Hill Edition is printed on heavyweight matte poster paper at high resolution and shipped in a thick-walled poster tube inside additional packaging to avoid creasing. The print measures 35.5 inches in vertical height and 52.5 inches in horizontal length.
Map elements include:
A heavy emphasis on world political boundaries, ideal for an educational setting
Understated terrain elements in the form of grayscale hillshading
A bathymetric model of the world's seafloor
A detailed depiction of :
Inland water bodies, including intermittent lakes and salt flats
Mountain summits with corresponding maximum elevations in feet
Mountain ranges, plateaus, valleys, and other significant landforms
Islands, points, capes, and other coastal features
Deserts
National and territorial capitals and globally significant cities scaled by population
International boundaries
Major seafloor features, including ridges, seamount chains, basins, and fracture zones
Pinpoint locations of seamounts, guyots, banks, shoals, reefs, and other seafloor prominences
Glaciers, ice caps, and ice shelves
The Ridgeline Geographic Political Map of the World: Capitol Hill Edition pays homage to classic historical and political maps, utilizing a simple four-color gradient fill scheme along international borders. Continental terrain is still emphasized with hillshading along a light yellow-to-dark gray color ramp. Despite the continental emphasis on human geography, the ocean floor is illuminated with systems of ridges, trenches, troughs, seamounts, guyots, banks, and reefs. For context, spot depths are labeled, with depth measurements represented in feet.
As political maps should ideally emphasize human geography, world cities (including national and territorial capitals) are emphasized and scaled/categorized by population, making human settlement patterns readily apparent.
