An excellent and extremely comprehensive world atlas from Klett-Perthes offered here in an interactive electronic format for use on both Windows and Mac computer operating systems. This advanced atlas contains nearly 200 high quality political, physical, and thematic maps that will meet the requirements of even the most rigorous of geography lesson plans. Recommended for World Regional Geography, Human Geography, as well as an Introduction to Geography.

This colorful and richly informative digital world atlas offers instructive insights to the complex issues and processes of the modern world. Every map can be projected on to a screen or used with an interactive whiteboard in your classroom as well as viewed on individual computers. A school wide site license means you can install the atlas on every machine in the school or make it available on your school network rather than purchase an individual copy for each computer.

Features an excellent user-friendly interactive interface with zoom and pan tools, a drawing tool to quickly mark or highlight an area, and ability to save each map as a JPEG image file. Maps can be viewed by region or topics. School site license DVD atlas can also be purchased with accompanying 313 page Klett-Perthes paperback World Atlas which includes statistical gazetteer featuring data on 195 countries as well as an index with more than 20,000 names.  View the complete list of maps found in this atlas below.

Downloadable demo version available:

• Windows Demo

Atlas Covers the following:

• Rich Thematic Coverage: geography, climate, vegetation, and more.
• Maps Compiled Using Current Data: example: climate maps based on the same classification system used by leading scientific institutes conducting research on global climate change.
• Logical Concise Cartographic Design: read many different dimensions of a given topic from each map.
• Map Skills: intro w/ concrete examples of how to read and interpret maps using lots of graphics.