Outstanding, as usual, Seer. For Christmas I got NatGeo's Atlas of the World 8th Edition. Already had the 7th Edition since '94, but by then it was already out of date with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, and I've passed it on to my little brother. There's several new features with this one. Better sat. photo's (the global view that they made a poster out of in their last issue is the title page), password protected access to their online map collection (look for these coming to an EarthViewer near you ) and a Cities section with graphic city maps for 50 cities worldwide. And in that section they show a layered bar chart map of city populations in 1950, 2000, and 2015 (estimated). Of all the cities represented, Moscow was the only one that is expected to have a population decrease. (except for London, which is expected to stay at 7.6 million. Guess they're plum full over there. No wonder you can ask 35M for a house.)

PS...Highly recommend this atlas to anyone. It is pricey, $145 for non-members and $85 for members. And I paid for my last one and thought it was well worth it, use it all the time in conjunction with KH. I know it can be found at Amazon.com, probably at a reduced price. That's where this last one came from, but I doubt it's as cheap as the members price.

PSS.......this is the hard bound edition I'm talking about. They also offer a soft copy that's quite a bit cheaper.