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 ...

Cartography is cool. Where would we be without it as a species?

Rick: Ashley, do students need to learn “mere facts”? Twenty years ago, in a 2006 TIME Magazine cover story on “How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20 th Century,” the then-dean of Stanford University ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name. National Geographic Society maps supply a backdrop for a meeting between ...