These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...

Some cities in Colombia and Brazil are deadlier than war-torn countries, according to a new interactive map of the world’s murders. First, some numbers: In 2012, 437,000 people were killed ...

By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by ...

Languages: English, Spanish Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s ...

This large format full-colour map features World Heritage sites and brief explanations of the World Heritage Convention and the World Heritage conservation programmes. It is available in English, ...

is still used by scientists to map objects in the sky. Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible ...