Author Description

This new edition is derived from the Bartholomew African digital database. Completely respecified and output at a scale of 1:5,000,000 (approximately 79 miles to the inch), it should serve as a general reference map for the prospective tourist, traveller, and geographer. It covers Egypt in the north to northern Kenya in the south, and stretches from Equatorial Guinea in the west to the Arabian Peninsula in the east. Layer colouring is used to signify the height of the land from sea level up to more than 4000m and forms an attractive background to the map detail. Other physical geography is clearly depicted using newly-specified symbology. Detail includes marsh, sand and rock deserts, salt lakes, oases, and wadis. The road detail is comprehensively covered and differentiates between seasonal and unmetalled roads in addition to the more usual classification of motorways, main roads, other roads, and tracks. A wide range of settlements is included from capital cities to remote villages, and sizing of the symbols used to represent the towns is based on the latest population figures available. Other information includes international borders and regional names. The key is in four languages.