Do you mean nation states as in, for example, Japan? A state is a political entity with recognize borders, which may be comprised of any people, while a nation is a group of people and does not have such borders. A nation state, therefore, is a group of the same people with officially recognize borders.
Nation states would be represented on maps because they have official borders. As far as a nation of people is concerned, I have no idea. I do not know what you mean by "people" not being shown on a map. There are some maps which show the average number of people per square mile/kilometer though.
District drawers in the United States use physical maps. They are responsible for creating voting districts for the elections across the nation.
Republican states are red. Democratic ones are blue.
hills and mountains are represented by circles on topographic maps.
political maps show nation states in dif colors they will show capitals cities major cities and large lakes or rivers...
Between the various map publishing companies, just about every colour is represented on maps.
Atlas maps.
hills and mountains are represented by circles on topographic maps.
To show a distant state, country, and nation boundaries with symbols indicating capitals and major cities.
Elevations (heights) are not easily represented.
Because there's not enough room to print the words of the items represented by the symbols.
they gather info first
The divisions of the worlds climatic regions are represented on grid maps by the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. These two lines represent the division between the equatorial climate and the colder weather that exists to the north and south beyond those divisions.