Cultural cartography

Cartographic representation of cultural explanations of definite areas.

Cultural cartography

Short and long scale usage throughout the world

Depending on the nations, various ways are used to form the names of big numbers: the long numeric scale and the short numeric scale.

In the long scale, every new word greater than a million is one million times bigger than the previous term (the digits are grouped by 6). In the short scale, every new word greater than a million is one thousand times bigger than the previous term (the digits are grouped by 3

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Cultural cartography

World Cultures Mapped

A culture is a group of patterns of human activity inside society and the symbolic structures that give importance to such activity. Social norms, religious faiths, and traditions, laws, architecture, dress, are all examples of cultural elements. Despite the wide variety of cultures, all cultures can be conventionally combined into large groups or clusters. There are several classifications of human cultures.

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