Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map ... Words on maps, it turned out, had sticking power. The earliest chart printed in Europe of the Gulf formerly ...

A 1985 study of mental world maps found that geographers had the same misconceptions of the relative latitude of cities in North America and Europe as everyone else. Cartographers aren’t immune ...

While the U.S. teaches that there are seven continents, Europe teaches that there are only six, with North and South America counting ... or Euro-American, world view," Chris Hann, the founding ...