These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world ... we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average ...

He included National Geographic’s first published hurricane map: a sketch of the wind paths that had fomented into storms in the North Atlantic Ocean over the past two years. The lines curved ...

Within weeks the National Geographic Society announced that Sandy Island would be stricken from all of its maps, and other mapmakers followed suit. Google removed Sandy Island from its maps ...

The data will be used to train supercomputers that will one day map reefs around the globe. The National Geographic Society has funded the work of Ved Chirayath since 2021. Learn more about its ...