Maps are to open worlds what the buns are to a hamburger: the element that's taken for granted but holds the whole thing ...

Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Welcome to ‘A’ to ‘Z’ World Geography Quiz! 🌍There are 26 letters in the alphabet, and this quiz features 26 questions, each ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...