A navigation device for a vehicle, having the following features: A data provider, which is designed in order to provide data of a navigation map; and a processor, which is designed in order to receive data of a navigation map for an environment of the vehicle from the data provider based on a determined position of the vehicle and to provide a display signal representing the navigation map for a display device for reproducing the navigation map, wherein the processor is designed in order to generate the display signal, so that the navigation map can be reproduced by the display device so as to extend along a reference area and is viewed from a viewing position that depends on the position of the vehicle and is arranged above the navigation map, wherein the processor is designed, in order to bend the reference area from a predefined distance away from the viewing position towards the viewing position, wherein the processor is designed, in order to generate the display signal, so that an additional information item of interest in addition to a preferred route is shown highlighted in a part of the navigation map that is further away from the viewing position than the predefined distance, wherein the additional information item of interest is an object of interest, characterized in that the object of interest belongs to an object category of interest, wherein the object of interest is the object of interest of the objects of the object category of interest most rapidly accessible by the preferred route, wherein the predefined distance depends on a magnitude of the height variation of the navigation map, so that in the case of large height differences the reference area is already bent or curved from a smaller predefined distance as in the case of small height differences. A data provider, which is designed in order to provide data of a navigation map; and a processor, which is designed in order to receive data of a navigation map for an environment of the vehicle from the data provider based on a determined position of the vehicle and to provide a display signal representing the navigation map for a display device for reproducing the navigation map, wherein the processor is designed in order to generate the display signal, so that the navigation map can be reproduced by the display device so as to extend along a reference area and is viewed from a viewing position that depends on the position of the vehicle and is arranged above the navigation map, wherein the processor is designed, in order to bend the reference area from a predefined distance away from the viewing position towards the viewing position, wherein the processor is designed, in order to generate the display signal, so that an additional information item of interest in addition to a preferred route is shown highlighted in a part of the navigation map that is further away from the viewing position than the predefined distance, wherein the additional information item of interest is an object of interest, characterized in that the object of interest belongs to an object category of interest, wherein the object of interest is the object of interest of the objects of the object category of interest most rapidly accessible by the preferred route, wherein the predefined distance depends on a magnitude of the height variation of the navigation map, so that in the case of large height differences the reference area is already bent or curved from a smaller predefined distance as in the case of small height differences.