Countries and territories (boundaries, names, continents)
Natural Earth 1:10m Admin 0 – Countries, India point of view · Public domain · v5.1
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · shapely coverage_simplify at 0.045° (shared borders kept without gaps); coordinates rounded to 0.001°
Capitals and major cities
Natural Earth 1:50m Populated Places · Public domain · v5.1
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · A capital is shown only if it lies inside its own country polygon
Rivers and lakes
Natural Earth 1:50m Rivers + lake centrelines; Lakes · Public domain · v5.1
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Simplified at 0.02°
Oceans and seas
Natural Earth 1:50m Marine areas · Public domain · v5.1
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Simplified at 0.05°
Mountain ranges, deserts and landforms
Natural Earth 1:50m Physical labels (geography regions) · Public domain · v5.1
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Label areas only, not exact extents; simplified at 0.04°
Mountain peaks
Natural Earth 1:10m Elevation points · Public domain · v5.1
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Mountains and depressions with elevation in metres
Terrain (shaded relief)
Natural Earth Gray Earth with Shaded Relief and Ocean Bottom, 1:50m · Public domain · v2.0
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Reprojected to Web Mercator 512 px WebP tiles, zoom 0–3
Time zones
Natural Earth 1:10m Time zones · Public domain · v5.1
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Nominal (standard-time) zones; daylight saving is not shown. Simplified at 0.08°. A country lists the zone covering most of it, any zone covering at least 3% of it, and the zones of its cities
Biomes
RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., BioScience 67:534) · CC BY 4.0 · 2017
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · 846 ecoregions dissolved into 14 biomes; simplified at 0.08–0.12°; areas under 0.2 square degrees and rock/ice left out
Heat zones (climate)
Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circles (Earth’s axial tilt ≈ 23.44°) · Geometric definition · —
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Latitude bands at ±23.44° and ±66.56° (the heat zones taught in NCERT Class 6 geography). Not a Köppen climate map.
UNESCO World Heritage sites
UNESCO World Heritage Centre – World Heritage List (XML) · © UNESCO; facts (name, category, year, location) with link to the official page · 1270 sites
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Serial sites are placed at their most central listed location
Population, area, GDP per person, life expectancy, forest and urban share
World Bank – World Development Indicators · CC BY 4.0 · latest year per country (shown with each value); data updated 2026-10-08
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · SP.POP.TOTL, AG.SRF.TOTL.K2, NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, SP.DYN.LE00.IN, AG.LND.FRST.ZS, SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
Capitals, languages, currencies, calling codes, landlocked status
mledoze/countries · ODbL 1.0 · master
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Joined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
Hindi and Telugu names
Wikidata labels (and Natural Earth NAME_HI) · CC0 · live query
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Matched by Wikidata ID; English is shown where no label exists
Wildlife highlights
Example places to see each animal; coordinates from Wikipedia / Wikidata · CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · 30 places
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · An example protected area, not the animal’s full range
Flags
flag-icons by Panayiotis Lipiridis · MIT · v7.2.3
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · 4:3 SVG files, matched by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
Continent photos
Wikimedia Commons (featured pictures) · CC BY-SA / CC0 (per photo, see credits) · 7 photos
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Cropped to 16:9, 1200×675 WebP
Every changing number shows its year and source. Figures are refreshed when the data set is rebuilt; nothing is typed in by hand.
