international map of the world on the million scale

Japanese: international map of the world on the million scale(英語表記)internationalmapoftheworldonthemillionscale
international map of the world on the million scale

...From the 17th century to the end of the 19th century, the terms "world map" and "world wide map" were used to mean the world map or the complete map of the world. Currently, it is also used as an abbreviation for the international map of the world on the million scale (IMW).
[1:1,000,000 International Map]
It began in 1881 at the 5th International Geographical Congress in Bern, where A. Penck proposed the creation of international maps with standardized scales, projections, symbols, etc. The first IMW conference was held in London in 1909, and in 1920 the central office was established in the British Ordnance Survey.

*Some of the terminology used in "International Map of the World on a Million Scale" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…17世紀から19世紀末ごろまでは,世界図もしくは世界全図の意味で,万国総図,万国全図などの用語が用いられた。現在,100万分の1国際図international map of the world on the million scale(略号IMW)の略称としても用いられる。
[100万分の1国際図]
 1881年のベルンにおける第5回国際地理学会議で,A.ペンクが統一された縮尺,図法,記号などによる国際的な地図の作成を提唱したのに始まり,その後第1回IMWの会議が1909年にロンドンで開催され,20年にはイギリスの測量局Ordnance Surveyに中央事務局が置かれた。…

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