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

The U.S. capital is tiny compared to many of the world’s largest cities, a new report on urbanization around the globe shows.

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ring that ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...