the errors on our mental maps tend to persist. One reason for this may be that our conceptions of the world are basically summaries of the geography, says cartographer Dylan Moriarty, who is an ...

(See also: The United States Enters World War I). But it was National Geographic's maps that quickly helped Americans grasp the sweep of a conflict so vast that it would later become known as the ...

We’re all familiar with geography maps ... According to this map, different countries around the world have innocent questions that divide the people into two camps. Some of the matters in ...

National Geographic’s new initiative to inform, inspire and empower people to live more lightly on the planet. Usually, changes to world maps are the result of political changes – for example ...

This fascinating map from National Geographic shows the proportion of the world’s crops that are grown for direct human consumption (in green) versus all the crops that are grown for animal feed ...

Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this book examines world history through the closely related discipline of geography. The civilizations and events represented in the book, while not ...

“The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World,” a sequel to 2015’s “Prisoners of Geography,” takes readers on a tour of places — from Australia to Iran to ...

look no further than a map. In his book The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan argues that geography is not just important to understanding world affairs — it's central to understanding where we've ...

For the first time in over a century, there's a new ocean on the map. That's according to National Geographic ... Last month, the world’s largest iceberg, which was more than three times ...

National Geographic’s new initiative to inform, inspire and empower people to live more lightly on the planet. Usually, changes to world maps are the result of political changes – for example ...

National Geographic announced Tuesday that it is ... that was submitted in 2000 to add the Southern Ocean to the world map, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.