Our family National Geographic Atlas is the 7th Edition, but it doesn't give the year of publication (avoiding the date somehow delays obsolescence?) It's from the 90s because it shows the XSSR countries. Maybe I'm old fashioned but giving measurements in the metric system drives me *nuts* And what's this with "Kolkata?" An American atlas should use feet and miles and put faddish place names in an appendix. A real test for the new edition's PCness...what does it call the West Bank in Israel?