Do we have the same geographic maps in every country?

Not quite… Here are a few things I can add to Quora User 's excellent answer. * Obviously enough, the language used on the map may be different. read more

US atlases (especially road atlases) typically arrange maps of states in alphabetical order. In most other countries’ atlases that I have seen, the maps of states/provinces/regions are ordered in some more or less loose geographic order (by row, by column, concentrically starting with the capital, or whatever). read more

Every map has some sort of distortion. The larger the area covered by a map, the greater the distortion. Features such as size, shape, distance, or scale can be measured accurately on Earth, but once projected on a flat surface only some, not all, of these qualities can be accurately represented. read more

Computerized systems that allow for precise calculations of how things are distributed and relate to one another have made the study of geographic information systems (GIS) an increasingly important specialty within geography. Geographic information systems are powerful databases that collect all types of information (maps, reports, statistics, satellite images, surveys, demographic data, and more) and link each piece of data to a geographic reference point, such as geographic coordinates. read more