I still think we need more education in geography in this country. So many people can't identify obscure, and sometimes not obscure, countries, let alone show you where they are located on a globe. So ...

One of the largest collections of maps on earth is in Milwaukee. With about 2 million different items, the American ...

THIS little book deals in a brief manner with the chief facts in the physical and political geography of the countries of the world. Numerous clear maps will enable the beginner to find many of the ...

<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 ...

To be named "world capital" of something is both a badge of honor, yet also something of a badge of shame, writer George Pendle tells NPR's Robert Siegel. It means your city revolves entirely around a ...

A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t ...

From Timbuktu to Talladega, there's a whole world out there and we're about to explore it with a collection of geography facts guaranteed to put your knowledge to the test. Whether you’re an expert on ...

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 ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

A bathroom I used to frequent many years ago featured a shower curtain printed with a colorful map of the world. As I’d lather and rinse (and occasionally repeat), I’d run my eyes over its coastlines ...