Your turn What is the scale on the map below? Explain what this scale means. Calculate. How many centimetres separate Vienna from Paris on the map? How many kilometres is that equivalent to in reality? Imagine that you are going on a journey to several cities and you have decided on the following stages for each day. How many kilometres will you travel on each stage? – Riga to Budapest – Budapest to Bern – Bern to Amsterdam – Amsterdam to Paris Calculate real distances on a map 1 B E A G E O G R A P H E R 17 To calculate the real distance in a straight line between two points on a map, follow these steps: Interpret the scale of the map. In this case, 1:8,250,000 indicates that 1 cm on the map is equivalent to 82.5 km in reality. Use a ruler to measure the distance you are going to calculate. For example, on this map, the distance between Madrid and Lisbon is 6 cm. Apply the rule of three to find out what those 6 cm on the map are in reality. X represents the distance we want to find out. 1 cm 8,250,000 cm 5 6 cm x x 5 8,250,000 3 6 1 5 49,500,000 Convert centimetres into kilometres. 49,500,000 cm equals 495 km. This is the actual distance in a straight line between Madrid and Lisbon. How to do it RUSSIA A R C T I C OCE A N N o r t h S e a B l a ck S e a Bal ti c Sea CZECH IA (CZECH REPUBLIC) M e d i t e r r a n e a n S e a Ankara TÜRKIYE ARMENIA GEORGIA AZERBAI JAN Baku Tb ilisi Yerevan A T L A N T I C O C E A N Andorra la Vella Valletta Rome Lisbon San Marino Athens Ljub ljana Sarajevo London Skop je Belgrade Luxembourg Sofia Berlin Madrid Tallinn Bratislava Minsk Brussels Moscow Tirana Bucharest Monaco Vaduz Budapest Nicosia Warsaw Copenhagen Oslo Vienna Dublin Paris Vilniu s Podgo rica Zag reb Stockho lm Prague Amsterdam Helsinki Pristina Kiev Reykjav ik Chișinău Riga Bern ALBANIA ESTONIA MOLDOVA GERMANY MONTENEGRO ANDORRA FINLAND FRANCE NORWAY AUSTRIA NETHERLANDS GREECE POLAND BELARUS HUNGARY PORTU GAL BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IRELAND UNITED KINGDOM BULGARIA ICELAND BELGIUM ITALY ROMANIA CYPRUS KOSOVO* SAN MARINO VATICAN CI TY LATVIA SERBIA CROATIA LI ECHTENSTEIN SWEDEN DENMARK LI THUANIA SWITZERLAND SLOVAKIA LUX EMBOURG SLOVENIA NORTH MACEDONIA UKRAINE SPAIN MALTA MONACO 0 320 kilometres Scale Madrid Lisbon 1 8,250,000 959069_01_p17_leyenda_europa_politico Capital State border *Not recognised by all countries as an independent state.
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