A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions suggest.

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 ...

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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 ...

I’ve always enjoyed poring over a good map. Whether it’s thumbing through a road atlas, spinning around a globe, or sticking pushpins into a wall map to designate where I’ve been and where I want to ...

World Geography GK Questions Answers: Get ready to embark on a geographical odyssey with this challenging quiz! From towering mountains to sprawling deserts, bustling metropolises to hidden islands, ...

On 15 October 2014, Paul ‘Barbs’ Barbato posted a video profiling Afghanistan on his YouTube channel, Geography Now. It was the second upload on the page, posted after a trailer teasing what was to ...

When Christopher Columbus first set foot in what's now the Bahamas, it was the lucky sum of a 1,400-year-old cartographical error and Columbus's own miscalculations ...

UNDER this title Mrs. Macdonell has attempted to supply what she believes to be a want long felt in teaching geography to young children. She finds, as every teacher finds, that children prefer the ...