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This new fifth edition of Canada's bestselling atlas is truly outstanding. Completely up-to-date, it features a new cleaner fou-colour design that improves readability, and results in greater accuracy and more vibrant maps. many of the standard maps that proved popular in earlier editions have been retained, and many exciting new maps have been added. New thematic maps include such topical subjects as cyberspace, travel and tourism, and world climatic hazards. In addition easy-to-read political maps have been added to introduce each continental section. With forty-seven pages of Canadian maps and ninety pages of maps covering regions other than Canada, and over thirty-five pages of statistical charts and graphs, the Canadian Oxford World Atlas is a comprehensive, yet affordable, choice. Of course, any changes to country names and boundries have been incorporated, and statistical material now reflects the most up-to-date data available from the 2001 Canadian census.