But at least all these countries made it on the map, Iceland and Belize didn’t even have enough people to show up. The map uses 1 grid square to represent 1 million people.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill banning cellphone use at school, the latest in a trend growing nationally and worldwide.

In the fascinating world of geography, borders between countries are not just lines on a map; they are symbols of history, ...

Of course, most of those changes happened a long time ago—and it's not often that a new country is added to global maps. These are some of the newest countries on the map, with one of the newest ...

This discrepancy between the map size of a country and the real size of a country happens because we try to project our world which is shaped like a sphere (which is 3D, you know) onto a 2D map.

There’s a very good reason you’ve never booked a vacation to the Quilombo of Palmeres, the Islands of Refreshment, the Fiume Endeavour or Neutral Moresnet – they’ve all ceased to exist.

The company’s Connectivity Labs announced this week that it created new, high-resolution population-distribution maps of 20 countries, most of which are developing.

A new map shows the most innovative countries in the world according to the Global Innovation Index 2016. The map, created by The Independent's i100, uses the data from the report and puts it all ...

The US, with a market cap of $19.8 trillion, is the biggest and represents 52% of the world's market cap. Japan is in second place at $3 trillion, followed by the UK at $2.7 trillion, and then ...

These Beautiful Maps Capture the Rivers That Pulse Through Our World Cartographer Robert Szucs creates colorful maps of the watersheds that creep across states, countries, continents and the globe ...