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Wikivoyage is a free travel guide website and Wikimedia project for destination articles, itineraries, travel topics, maps, listings, and collaborative travel advice.
A time zone is a region that uses the same civil time, usually defined as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time and shaped by geography, law, and local practice.
The International Date Line is the mostly Pacific boundary where neighboring places can be on different calendar dates.
The Prime Meridian is the reference line for 0 degrees longitude, used to measure east-west position and connect geography with global timekeeping.
The Equator is the imaginary circle around Earth's middle that marks 0 degrees latitude and separates the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Latitude and longitude are the angular coordinates used to describe positions on Earth, giving every place a north-south and east-west address.
A map projection is a mathematical way to show the curved surface of Earth on a flat map, screen, or coordinate grid while managing unavoidable distortion.
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the vast body of land ice covering most of Greenland, a major part of the cryosphere and an important contributor to modern sea-level rise.
The Aral Sea is a shrinking inland lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, transformed by river diversions for irrigation into one of the clearest examples of human-driven environmental collapse.
Navigation is the practice of finding position, choosing a route, tracking progress, and correcting course across land, sea, air, space, or digital environments.
Cartography is the discipline of designing, producing, studying, and using maps to represent places, patterns, routes, and spatial relationships.