BUFFALO, N.Y. — Festus Adegbola, a University at Buffalo PhD student who is using remote sensing technology to monitor ...

Recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions and mapping technology. But maps have always been political, ...

Dr. Ted Goudge, a Shenandoah native and retired Associate Professor of Geography at Northwest Missouri State University, has ...

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Explore five common geography misconceptions that challenge our understanding of the world. From distorted map projections to ...

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

Around the world, though, the UK is something of an international outlier in not nominating an official national language, as the vast majority of countries have.

“We live in a world where size is often equated ... but it’s terrible for scale,” geography professor Lindsay Frederick Braun of the University of Oregon said of the Mercator map. The map is most ...

The map is most suitable for local area mapping and is used by digital platforms like Google Maps. When enlarged into a world map, though, Mercator becomes problematic, Braun said.

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world—but other maps wound up stirring up quite a bit of drama. We take a look at a few of of history’s most controversial maps below ...

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum points to a 1661 world map showing the Gulf of Mexico in response to Trump's comments about renaming the body of water, during a news conference in Mexico.