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Chikyu Earth地球

A line-drawn globe of the world's countries that turns at the Earth's own rate, with an optional realistic Earth from space and markers for any place.

Chikyu is the Japanese word 地球 for the Earth. About the name

Contents

Reference · Printable sheets: the globe and a world map to colour, my country, day and night, the seasons

countryFactsfunction

The three facts of a "my country" sheet: the continent it is in, the countries it touches and its capital.

Import it

import { countryFacts } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/sheets";

Definition

function countryFacts(shape: { name: string; ja: string; continent: ContinentId; neighbours: readonly { name: string; ja: string; }[]; }, capital: string | undefined, lang: Lang): string[]

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
shape{ name: string; ja: string; continent: ContinentId; neighbours: readonly { name: string; ja: string; }[]; }

The country's name and Japanese name, its continent and the names of its neighbours.

capitalstring | undefined

The capital's name, or undefined for a sheet that asks the child to find it.

langLang

en or ja.

Returns

string[]

Three sentences.

Examples

import { countryFacts, countryShape } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/sheets";

const france = countryShape("FR")!;
console.log(countryFacts(france, "Paris", "en")[1]);
It touches 6 countries: Belgium, Germany and Italy (and 3 more).

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth 0.51.1.