This statement has inspired the work of National Geographic cartographers for over a century and accurately summarizes the way maps can capture the imagination. Maps can inspire real or fantastic ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and ...

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...

National Geographic also has a policy of including ... The new name appears on maps, but “no one calls it that,” noted another user. “Are we going to start teaching this as the name of ...

The National Hurricane Center has changed its website and maps to show Gulf of America ... name is preferred by the country a specific geographic feature belongs to, but the Gulf touches Mexico ...

13, the National Weather Service started updating its maps to comply with President ... 14 on its website that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names was directed to immediately rename the Gulf ...