This work, with its innovative structure, is a valuable aid for every student to easily understand and properly grasp the material of geography, enhanced with the most important historical data. The variety of colorful maps (political, geophysical, productive, climatological, transportation, etc.), the accurate historical information, structured according to pedagogical requirements, the reference to the population of inhabited places with data from the 1991 census, the carefully crafted exercise insert for further consolidation of knowledge, and finally, the abundance of archaeological, historical, and tourist place names, make the Atlas a valuable source of easy learning. The authors' concern was: richness, accuracy, and strict selection of content elements, variety of knowledge, proper arrangement of material, careful design of exercises, clarity of concepts, and the natural representation of diverse maps. (FROM THE PRESENTATION ON THE BACK COVER OF THE BOOK)