World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

But he found no takers. The 400th anniversary passed, two world wars and the cold war engulfed Europe, and the Waldseemüller map, left alone in its tower garret, went to sleep for another century.

The past 100 years have seen another world ... day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map ...

Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world is ... seven continents and five oceans. Europe is a continent.

The Prime Meridian passes through London in the United Kingdom. Europe is the second smallest continent in the world. It has over 40 countries. The world's largest country by area is Russia.

And in Europe, a 67-year-old Belgian woman ... experiment in figuring out how they fit into the world, by inventing a bold new tool: the map. One of the oldest surviving maps is, ironically ...