What's the difference between an almanac and an atlas?

Question

What's the difference between an almanac and an atlas?

Answer 1

an almanac, for farmers (The Farmers Almanac), for example, tells them what to plant and when to plant their crops for the year based on past years. An atlas would be like a book or a chart of maps for a whole country or the world.

Answer 2

An almanac is a collection of facts.

An atlas is a collection of maps.

Answer 3

An almanac has facts about many things going on around the world in the year the almanac was published (i.e. politics, celebrities and more) . An atlas has maps and only talks about countries and their culture and stuff like that.

Answer 4

An atlas is really just another sort of map. An almanac is a book that explains different things like weather throughout the year, geography, planting season, sunrise and sunset, etc.

Answer 5

An almanac contains information, such as statistics and things like that about everything. Atlas's are collections of maps and geographic info.

Answer 6

an alamanac is an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year and an atlas is a collection of maps in book form, so there really diferent

Answer 7

An Almanac has information from around the world, such as populations, square miles of a country, type of government, food that is grown in an area, weather, etc.  An Atlas is a book of maps.

Answer 8

Almanac is--An annual publication including calendars with weather forecasts, astronomical information, tide tables, and other related tabular information.

Atlas is--A book or bound collection of maps, sometimes with supplementary illustrations and graphic analyses.

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Answer 9

An atlas is a collection of maps.  An almanac is a collection of information often dealing with a calander.  They are printed annualy.

Answer 10

Atlas is a book of maps

Almanac is book of interesting and useful facts about countries.

Answer 11

An atlas is a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form, but also found in multimedia formats. As well as geographic features and political boundaries, many often feature geopolitical, social, religious and economic statistics.

With the coming of the global market, publishers in different countries can reprint maps from plates made elsewhere. This means that the place names on the maps often use the designations or abbreviations of the language of the country in which the feature is located, to serve the widest market. For example, islands near Russia have the abbreviation "O." for "ostrov", not "I." for "island". This practise differs from what is standard for any given language, and it reaches its extremity concerning transliterations from other languages. Particularly, German mapmakers use the transliterations from Cyrillic developed by the Czechs which are hardly used in English-speaking countries.

An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomical data and various statistics are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more.

Currently published almanacs such as Whitaker's Almanack have expanded their scope and contents beyond that of their historical counterparts. Modern almanacs include a comprehensive presentation of statististical and descriptive data covering the entire world. Contents also include discussions of topical developments and a summary of recent historical events. Other currently published almanacs (ca. 2006) include TIME Almanac with Information Please, World Almanac and Book of Facts, and The Old Farmer's Almanac.

Major topics covered by almanacs (reflected by their tables of contents) include: geography, government, demographics, agriculture, economics and business, health and medicine, religion, mass media, transportation, science and technology, sport, and awards/prizes.

Modern or contemporary use of the word almanac has come to mean a chronology or time-table of events such as The Almanac of American Politics published by the National Journal, or The Almanac of American Literature, etc..