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The Philippines is a nation of over 7,000 islands, surrounded by stunning seas and natural beauty. But behind its postcard-perfect image lies a harsh reality: geography has played a defining and often ...

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BANGKOK: Several observers agree that Prime Minister Hun Manet's government is facing mounting domestic pressure amid a ...

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Explore five common geography misconceptions that challenge our understanding of the world. From distorted map projections to ...

I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited ...

And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade.

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...