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If you were an alien newly arrived on this planet, fully unaware of the last 2,000 years of human history and looking for a primer on the nations of the Earth, you could do much worse than the books ...

Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer working in Florence in the late 15th century, produced a highly detailed map of the known world. According to experts, there is strong evidence that ...

To be named "world capital" of something is both a badge of honor, yet also something of a badge of shame, writer George Pendle tells NPR's Robert Siegel. It means your city revolves entirely around a ...

The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth were ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

This short tells a story about what will the world look like in 1000 years? In the year 3025, AI would take the entire North ...

From Timbuktu to Talladega, there's a whole world out there and we're about to explore it with a collection of geography facts guaranteed to put your knowledge to the test. Whether you’re an expert on ...

A new trade map is emerging amid tariff disruptions, as resilient global commerce shifts routes and new hubs in the Global South gain strength.

American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps ...