World
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![A map of world shorelines and national borders under the Robinson projection.](/Images/godic/202501/03/ColoredBlankMap-World-10E.svg3434.png")
![The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1503) shows the](/Images/godic/202501/03/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution3434.jpg")
![Yggdrasil, a modern attempt to reconstruct the Norse world tree which connects the heavens, the world, and the underworld.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Yggdrasil3434.jpg")
The world is a common name for the whole of human civilization, or for the planet Earth and all life upon it. In terms such as world map and world climate, world is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.