A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

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

The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...

To be named "world capital" of something is both a badge of honor, yet also something of a badge of shame, writer George Pendle tells NPR's Robert Siegel. It means your city revolves entirely around a ...

Political Map of all Continents of the world.

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water, it ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Language is inextricably interconnected with geography. Each day as we ...

On 15 October 2014, Paul ‘Barbs’ Barbato posted a video profiling Afghanistan on his YouTube channel, Geography Now. It was the second upload on the page, posted after a trailer teasing what was to ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.