These different map representations are called projections. Oh hello! I’m just working out where I am by using this world, er…globe to give it its proper name. A globe is a model of planet ...

The word "cosmography" isn't used much today, but educated readers in 1507 knew what it meant: the study of the known world ... The globe, certainly, I have limited in size. But the map is larger." ...

One way or the other,” President Donald Trump told Congress, the United States needs to “get” Greenland, strategically ...

This text and the language in the corresponding map was updated in consultation with a world gender expert* in October, 2023. NOTE to teachers and students: Some school or corporate domains block ...

This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities. Produced by Alex Kuzoian More from Politics We learned last year that many of the effects of climate ...

Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now ...

Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with support from British, Canadian, French, German and Australian forces—invaded Afghanistan to ...