This video reconstructs Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago when all modern continents were ...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's creative team turned the world map inside out for an interactive web project.

Do you know how America compares to Australia in terms of size? These 30 real-world maps will change your perception about the sizes of different countries.

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to ...

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

World maps are usually easy to recognize, but this time is different. In this challenge, you’ll face rotated, twisted, and ...

Etymology - the origin of words - is a fascinating subject on its own (especially for a word geek like me), but apply it geographically and it throws up a smorgasbord of interesting, out-there and ...