Country List Scope

This course starts with globe location practice. The first trainer uses World Atlas TopoJSON, a browser-friendly redistribution of Natural Earth country boundary data.

Natural Earth is excellent for map shapes, but it is not the same thing as a classroom list of sovereign states. It includes some territories and disputed areas, and tiny countries can be hard to click on a globe.

Later lessons should add a practice list that reconciles the map data with the United Nations Member States list, plus a special microstate round.