This essay invites you to consider a helpful way to classify the things in the world, called the “1 + 4 + 1” map. Let’s begin by separating what exists from what does not. Although this can ...

As the war in Ukraine escalates, more nations are becoming involved in the conflict between the eastern European nation and ...

The global average temperature is rising, but some regions are experiencing extreme heatwaves way beyond what models ...

Taken in isolation, they could just about be explained away as coincidences – freak accidents, one-off attacks, unfortunate ...

She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most ...

As Donald Trump readies an aggressive tariff policy, Newsweek has created a map showing the U.S.'s biggest trading partners.

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

The world's oldest known map, which has been missing for years but has not been missed, was relocated yesterday in the basement of the Center for International Affairs by a Harvard sophomore.

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.