Explore all about California—its flag, map, geography, history, key facts, and education system. Learn what makes the Golden ...

An interactive map on Atlas Obscura explores alternate capital cities — not of countries, but products, events and states of mind. George Pendle explain the origins of the toilet paper capital ...

The votes are in and the winner for school theme is . . . “The World Around Us, Including Geography.” The title may be a bit awkward rolling off the tongue, but Marlborough Elementary S… ...

This representation from Ptolemy's Geography shows "Sinae" (China) at the extreme right, beyond the island of "Taprobane" (Ceylon or Sri Lanka, oversized) and the "Aurea Chersonesus" (Southeast Asian ...

Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world, challenging traditional Eurocentric perspectives. Released by the Brazilian Institute of ...

Geography’s role in wars and politics shows the world isn’t “flat,” Tim Marshall writes.

To understand many of the triumphs, tragedies and conflicts in the world, geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan says to look no further than a map. In his book The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan argues ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Geography Isn’t Sacred in the Playful World of Pictorial Maps A new book highlights an occasionally twisted, often amusing, always colorful tradition of hand-drawn cartography.

The new maps show how interconnected the world’s waterways are—how far-flung rivers from different continents eventually reach the same ocean expanse.

Likewise, as agents of manipulation, maps are well-positioned to influence and shape global views when driven by economic, nationalistic, or political interests. Geographic imagery has widely been ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.