Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to T ...

The game presents the player with a randomly selected image of a stretch of road on Google Street View; at the top of the screen is a timer, and at the bottom is a world map. The aim is to use ...

Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human faces with puffed cheeks to indicate wind directions. Initially ...