A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

The continent of Antarctica Find out about the continent of Oceania, including its geographical features, the South pole, wildlife and the people who live there. Oceans of the world Learn about ...

which evolved into today’s National Geographic Maps. As in the past, our cartographers continue to illustrate the world around us through the art and science of mapmaking. We adhere to this long ...

This video can help pupils learn about the physical geography of the ... teachers could use a base map to explore the make up of the world and where the features explored in the video are located.

The Mappa Mundi, completed by monk Fra Mauro in 1459, is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Video by Anna ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good ...

Everyone in the rest of the world sees ... that names of geographical sites that people use in conversations might not always ...