Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...

Maps are to open worlds what the buns are to a hamburger: the element that's taken for granted but holds the whole thing ...

<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 ...

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