And it was only after 1520, once Magellan had rounded the tip of South America and sailed into the Pacific, that Europeans were thought to have confirmed the continental nature of the New World. And ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...

The latest version of the World Heritage map, produced by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and National Geographic Maps with support from the United Nations Foundation, can now be ordered for a modest ...

Sometimes good things come in big packages. We all have fond memories of wandering across staggeringly large world maps like Tamriel or traversing continents like Novigrad or Skellige. Size does ...

A Newsweek map shows the world’s 100 largest cities by population, according to updated United Nations data—including the only two U.S. metropolises to make the cut: New York and Los Angeles. The ...