There are a variety of types of cards, but all of them are divided into two groups – physical cards and thematic cards. Thematic represent our planet from any side, for example, from the point of view of climate or mineral deposits. So the political maps of the world belong to the group of thematic maps. You can see the boundaries and names of states that exist in the world, the names of their capitals and sometimes several large cities. The largest rivers, lakes, seas, islands, necessarily continents and oceans. There is a binding to the meridians and parallels on political maps. Here is a fragment of such a political map of the world, although there are also political maps of the continents, units of the world and even individual countries: