Of course, most of those changes happened a long time ago—and it's not often that a new country is added to global maps.

Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world.Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world ...

Fifty million updates—that’s how many are made to Google’s maps data each day, says Bonnie Pericolosi, director of product management, Google Maps Platform.

A video showing the true size of Russia compared to Africa has gone viral on TikTok as social media users learn about the misrepresentation of scale on many world maps. First posted in late ...

Here’s a closer look at the countries holding elections, in maps and charts. India, the world’s most populous country, has already held the largest election this year.

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Google will soon update its maps to say the "Gulf of America" instead of the "Gulf of Mexico" in the U.S. But that won't be the case for users all over the world. In a series of social media posts ...

This map is a reminder that the world's divisions and commonalities go much deeper than national borders. It also helps to tell the stories of a few major events that still shape the globe, the ...