Mercator is currently testing its go-to-market strategy in Texas, which presents an ideal test market due to its large ...

My students find me weird because in the age of Google and Waze, I continue to be intrigued by physical maps of the ...

It all began with my fascination with politics since my grade school days. It was inevitable that this would lead me to the study of geopolitics, the study of the influence of factors as geography, ...

A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the ...

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

It’s a political tactic that has lasted as long as maps have, according to Karl Offen, a geography professor at Syracuse ...

Depending on the map projection used, the size of continents can be quite distorted - and a map showing the true size of each country shows there is a north-south divide ...

From Trump's flirtation with renaming the Persian Gulf to the reignited conflict in Kashmir, these are some of the territorial disputes around the world.

by their size on a map. Canada is the world’s second-largest country by area and Greenland is its largest island. But their northern latitudes also mean the common Mercator projection inflates ...