the errors on our mental maps tend to persist. One reason for this may be that our conceptions of the world are basically summaries of the geography, says cartographer Dylan Moriarty, who is an ...

The May 1918 issue of National Geographic included an oversized map of the western front, the 400-mile battle line across France and Belgium where much of the fighting in World War I took place.

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

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 ...

His current efforts are focused on leading the recently launched World Water Map. Developed with hydrology researcher Niko Wanders, with support from the National Geographic Society and in ...

Map by National Geographic The magnitude of her accomplishment ... “Not too many people can say this about their lives: The whole world was spread out before me (or at least, the 70 percent ...

“As we dug deeper with the Society maps team, we saw that a section ... National Geographic Atlas. The latest National Geographic Atlas of the World (2019) includes an island north of Inuit ...