What do you call the symbols list on a map? [closed]

Every map has symbols that describe things. In the corner of a map, there is a list that explains what each symbol means.

What is the name of that list? (What title should I put above this list)?

Solution 1:

A legend is the area of a map where the symbols used on that map are explained. The complete symbol sets that are used systematically throughout many maps or map sets are called symbologies.

See preface to US Chart 1 here. I am unable to convert pdf snippet at the moment.

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/chart1/ChartNo1.pdf

symbology

3 : a system of symbols

M-W symbology: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/symbology

Solution 2:

The list is called legend.Please look up the word in Merriam-Webster online dictionary "a list that explains the symbols on a map".