The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

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Across the country as a whole, towns and cities of all sizes recorded population increases from 2023 to 2024. Growth was ...

You don't need to be an expert on every region to have a valid opinion about the world. But you should at least be able to ...

With fears of another World War continuing to escalate, many in the world are wondering where they may be able to find a safe ...

Europe, portrayed as bigger than South America, is actually half its ... but it’s terrible for scale,” geography professor Lindsay Frederick Braun of the University of Oregon said of the Mercator map.

With the US joining Israel in strikes on Iran, we take a look at where you might want to head if the conflict escalates.

Trump's Middle East moves may be part of a strategy to revive the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor, a major infrastructure project designed to bypass China ...

China said its coast guard on Friday expelled a Philippine government ship from waters near a disputed shoal as maritime ...

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the ...