If your look at collection framework you will see the following, but Map is not in the list of interfaces. While we talk about map we say it is a part of collection framework, so if Map is a part of collection framework then why it is not in the interfaces list.
java.util
Interface Collection
All Known Subinterfaces:
BeanContext, BeanContextServices, List, Set, SortedSet
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractCollection, AbstractList, AbstractSet, ArrayList, BeanContextServicesSupport, BeanContextSupport, HashSet, LinkedHashSet, LinkedList, TreeSet, Vector
Mapswork withkey/value pairs, while theother collectionswork withjust values. Map maps keys to values. It allows its content to be viewed as a set of keys, a collection of values and a set of key-value mappings.Check this following link. Answer by oracle.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/