The Earth is roughly a sphere. The Earth is an irregularly shaped ellipsoid.
Brazil, they speak Portuguese.
I think that the question asks about the time of the War in Bosnia and other parts of Yugoslavia in the first part of the 90s. The Serbian soldiers that committed mass murder of Bosnian population, mostly men, referred to this as "ethnic cleansing" which sounded better than "genocide"
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Answer:
major cities
bodies of water
international borders
Explanation:
The political maps are type of specialized maps that are showing the reader of the map the countries, be it in the whole world, in a region, or in a smaller area.
These maps are always showing the international borders between the countries, which is actually its main purpose, differentiation of the countries and representation of their borders.
Very often, the major cities tend to be represented as well, and it can only be the capital cities, or cities that are very large and important.
The major bodies of water too tend to be represented, as the borders between the countries often go through a water body, or the water bodies are surrounding a country.
Every country is usually depicted with different color, so that the reader of the map is able to differentiate the countries much more easily.