http://www.naturalearthdata.com/Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m,
1:50m, and 1:110m scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and
raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually
pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
Natural Earth was built through a collaboration of many volunteers and is supported by <a href="http://www.nacis.org/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.nacis.org');">NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society), and is free for use in any type of project (see our Terms of Use page for more information).Get the Data
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