National Geographic cartographers fill a key map gap on the North American Continental Divide and pay tribute to the Father of American Mapmaking A portion of the Trails Illustrated Wind River Range ...

This page links BBC Teach geography content to the objectives of the National Curriculum for England at KS1 and KS2.

It's crazy to think people once believed the earth was flat. One step too far and you'd be sent tumbling into the depths of the abyss of who knows what or where. Thanks to the explorers who came ...

If you were an alien newly arrived on this planet, fully unaware of the last 2,000 years of human history and looking for a primer on the nations of the Earth, you could do much worse than the books ...

Since the earliest humans painted stories on cave walls, languages that transcend the written word have brought people together. Cartography, the science of creating maps, is one of those languages.

Map of the value of cities increased by manufacturing (all images courtesy Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab) Back in 1932, a naval ...

Would a place by any other name smell as sweet? Maybe. But how would you find it on a map? The U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) has spent the past 125 years making sure that’s not an issue. By ...