This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. French admiral Claude d’Annebault knew his political career was in trouble. Once a top adviser to King Francis I, he ...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

The world is fragmented into a thousand pieces. No, literally — this new world map jigsaw puzzle that I recently brought home ...

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and ...

Identifying the seven continents, five oceans, the Equator, the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and the North and South Pole. and The Arctic Ocean. I orbit around the sun. Not that fast!

United States President Donald Trump’s executive orders have crept into the realm of digital cartography. Google announced on ...