196 countries, and one is waiting for you
A photographic atlas of the countries of the worldFaris Hamdan
God’s Vast World
What you will find inside
An atlas of every country on Earth: 196 countries in seven chapters, from the largest to the smallest. Each country has a card that follows the same order, so you can move between countries easily and compare them as you like. Every card holds photographs, a map, sourced figures, and stories you will not find in an ordinary atlas.
In every card
01The opener
- A large photograph to open the door
- The name in its own language, and how to say it
- A greeting in a word
- The story of the flag, and a map
- Its size compared with Jordan
02The story
- A scene or a tale to begin
- The land and its regions
- The people and their celebrations
- The kitchen and its dishes by name
03The soul
- The best known landmarks
- A book, a song and a film
- What it gave the world
- Surprises and a proverb
- Five dates that made it
04The photographs
- Five of its most beautiful views
- Nature, buildings and daily life
- Every photo licensed and credited
What you take away
- 01The whole world
Every country given the same care: Vatican City, which you can cross on foot in under an hour, and Russia, which spans eleven time zones.
- 02Easy comparison
The same order in every card, so any two countries can be compared in seconds, with each one sized against Jordan.
- 03People, not just numbers
How people greet each other in the morning, what they cook for their feasts, and which proverb they repeat when life gets hard.
- 04Facts you can trust
Every figure comes from a reliable source with its year beside it, and every photograph is licensed and credited at the back.
Stops from the book
Choose any country to open it
Seven continents, seven chapters
- 07AntarcticaNo countries
One book, two languages
The same book page for page: the same cards, photographs and maps, with the English written fresh rather than translated word for word.

English edition
- Pages
- 1,026
- Format
- 21 × 29.7 cm
- Print edition
- Coming soon
- Legal deposit
- 2026/10/6206
- ISBN (e-book)
- 978-9923-0-2955-8

Arabic edition
- Pages
- 1,026
- Format
- 21 × 29.7 cm
- Print edition
- Coming soon
- Legal deposit
- 2026/10/6201
- ISBN (e-book)
- 978-9923-0-2950-3