List of 2007 Macropædia articles

List of 2007 Macropædia articles

The Macropædia is the third part of the "Encyclopædia Britannica"; the other two parts are the Micropædia and the Propædia.

The 2007 version of the "Macropædia" has 699 articles arranged in alphabetical order over 17 volumes; the articles range in length from 2 to 310 pages, with an average of 24 pages per article. The articles almost always have references and named contributors identified by initials, which are linked to a name in the "Propædia".

In many cases, a 2007 "Macropædia" article is a compilation of several articles written by different contributors; for example, the articles on each of the 50 U.S. states were combined in 1985 into a single 310-page article, the United States of America. (For more information on the 1985 reorganization of the "Encyclopædia Britannica", see History of the Encyclopædia Britannica.) Therefore, a typical "Macropædia" article below corresponds to several pre-1985 "Macropædia" articles and similarly to several Wikipedia articles, such as those found in a .

The "Number of Pages" entries below have generally been rounded up to the nearest integer.

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*List of 1974 Macropædia articles


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