. . Atlas Ya kasan ce wani tarin taswira ne ; galibi tarin taswirar Duniya ne ko yankin Duniya . Atlases a al'adance ana ɗaure su ne a cikin sigar littafi, amma a yau atlass da yawa suna cikin sifofin multimedia . Bugu da kari ya gabatar da yanayin siffofin da kuma siyasa iyaka, da yawa atlases sau da yawa kunshi geopolitical, zamantakewa, addini da kuma tattalin arziki statistics . Suna kuma da bayanai game da taswira da wuraren da ke ciki. Tunanin atlas a wajan tunaninta na zamani da kuma nau'ikan atlas a yadda ya dace sune aka kirkira kuma daga cikin gudummawar farko na masu zane-zanen Netherlandish na zamani, masu ilimin kasa da kasa ; galibi Gerardus Mercator (wanda ya fara amfani da kalmar 'atlas' don tarin taswira) da kuma Abraham Ortelius (wanda galibi aka san shi a matsayin mahaliccin atlas na farko na gaskiya a yanayin zamani ). Amfani da kalmar "atlas" a cikin mahallin yanki ya faro ne daga 1595 lokacin da Bajamushe-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator ya buga Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura ( Atlas ko canjin yanayin duniya game da halittar duniya, da kuma duniya kamar yadda halitta ).