There are two types of sitemaps: XML sitemaps and HTML sitemaps.
An XML sitemaps is an XML file that lists URLs for a site, along with additional information about each URL and how often the pages on your site changes and the pages modified or updated by the admin . XML sitemaps give Google and other search engines important information or changes that you are doing of your website . In other way the HTML sitemaps is allows the visitors of the website to easily navigate the pages or information of your website.