To clarify what was said by the other respondents, "political maps" referring to sovereign state borders is a term composed of two words (and is probably one wo

To clarify what was said by the other respondents, "political maps" referring to sovereign state borders is a term composed of two words (and is probably one word in some other languages?), while "political maps" referring to maps of politics is two terms composed to express a modification of the idea of a map (which is almost always a political map in the first sense unless otherwise stated).