This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and 1930s: the “outline,” in which large subjects (the history of the world! every school of ...

which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and latitude. (Apparently, it’s been kicking around the Internets for a while, but was new to me.) A couple of striking things ...

Utilizing advanced imaging techniques, researchers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories determined that the ...

the chart is an interesting historical artifact, showing how Europeans and Americans conceived the history of the world in the early 20th Century. Republished courtesy of the David Rumsey Map ...

And, based on this data, the world's largest religion seems to be doing just fine. For simplicity's sake, let's examine what the visualizations of Pew's research show ... here is a chart of ...

With this map, it’s as ... “So many things amazed me: how much mapmakers of early portolan charts knew, how they updated their data so quickly, how accurate their compasses were, how geographic ...

Millions, if not billions, of people around the world start (and often ... for most people the pick-me-up of choice is coffee or tea. But, as economic geographers and market analysts have long known, ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers studied the sky using an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates. Known as the “Star Manual of Master Shi,” the document is the oldest ...

It's the chart that leads this article, which shows screen time by screen type around the world. I received some requests to break out the data in maps and customizable tables. Requests granted.

They're really just lines on the map ... world. The graphic shows who has a border beef with whom, and also which regions are the most in dispute. One of the most jarring things about this chart ...