Now the award-winning Hammond Atlas of the World is also available in an electronic format and packaged inside the book. The most comprehensive accurate CD-ROM World Atlas available, it offers seamless navigation, thousands of maps in a wide variety of styles, and a comprehensive index with more than one million ways to pinpoint precise locations around the globe. Perfect for Father's Day, Graduation or Back-to-School! -- The same detailed mapping as the print version, but now in an electronic format -- Instant access to over 250,000 places around the world -- 80,000-entry hypertext-linked almanac with statistics, flags, population, languages, religion, monetary units, history, culture, geography and economy for all 192 independent countries of the world -- More than 10,000 statistical maps, bar charts and pie graphs covering major world themes and new functionality allowing users to select any two topics for comparison -- Graphics that illustrate key processes that shape our world, such as plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcano formation -- Population data, latitude-longitude coordinates, automatic distance calculations, time zones and an extensive animated section on projections