Their stories, and those of numerous others, are detailed in an entertaining new book, “The Atlas of Extinct Countries” by writer Gideon Defoe CNN values your feedback 1.

With the Oxford University Press's Atlas of the World, put out annually, you are always getting the most up-to-date information. The 16th edition, which I recently received to review, came out ...

The World Atlas of Languages presents basic data on the existing 8,324 languages spoken or signed in the world, in use and not in use, as well as more detailed data documenting how 1,863 languages are ...

The world's diseases are not evenly distributed across the globe. Sub-Saharan African nations, for example, suffer much higher rates of HIV infection than do countries in any other region, and ...