Revised and updated for 2003-2004, this reference has a 48-page A-Z country-by-country gazetteer with information on population and land area for all the countries of the world, illustrated with flags, while the 32-page World in Focus gives an introduction to world geogrpahy with maps, charts and diagrams. The World Cities section provides urban area and city centre maps, marking tourist sites for 67 of the world's most important cities, with satellite images for 9 of the cities. There are 96 pages of physical and political maps, each with a locator diagram and adjoining pages indicator. The index includes geographical features as well as towns and cities, with both letter-figure grid references and latitude and longitude co-ordinates.