The historian and cartography Bill Rankin, who maintains the blog Radical Cartography, created the fascinating histograms above, which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and ...

Pinpointing your place is extremely easy on the world map if you exactly know the latitude and longitude geographical coordinates of your city, state or country. With the help of these virtual lines, ...

Think back to your childhood at the beach or playing in a sandbox and you likely wondered "What if I kept digging through the entire world ... hand map. By using the exact longitude and latitude ...

The latitude and longitude lines are used for pin pointing the exact location of any place onto the globe or earth map. The latitude and longitude lines jointly works as coordinates on the earth or in ...

This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere. The Robinson isn’t as extreme, however, taking the form of a ...

If I want to see where a place is in the world, I just need to look at where the lines cross, and read the numbers. Ah, there he is! Latitude is 32 degrees south, and longitude is 115 degrees east.