Over the years, they have evolved to incorporate symbols significant to the countries they represent. Click through as we put together a list of 25 national flags and their respective meanings.

This article appears in the October 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. What is it about the faces on these pages that we find so intriguing? Is it simply that their features disrupt our ...

They rally behind symbols of America’s foreign enemies, like the German National Socialist Party or Putin’s Russia, and American traitors like the Confederate States of America. Their foreign ...

After more than a century of conservation efforts, researchers have discovered that the bison in Yellowstone National Park ...

Then a group of women in Santa Rosa, California, took matters into their own hands and celebrated ... women sought national recognition. Sure enough, President Jimmy Carter issued the first ...