Nobody remembers every single thing that they were taught in school. Especially if you graduated from college decades ago, you might have trouble recalling small details or specific dates that you ...

The Olympic rings are among the most recognizable logo in the world. But what do the five rings mean? You might be surprised ...

The "beast" on Google Maps — called Leviathan, dragon, snake and more by some — is actually just a byproduct of the tectonic plates beneath our feet.

The world is a big place, so realistically, most people probably can’t accurately label every single country on a map. But we ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Two days after Christmas, the Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee set sail from Christchurch, New Zealand, on a ...

Google Maps began the process of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America after a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump made the name change official. It is now ...

The word “Asia” didn’t start as the name of a continent. It began as a much smaller label used by ancient people trying to describe the world around them. Over time, that label expanded as maps ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) has responded to the recent social media controversy surrounding the change of Thailand's name to "Tailan" in the latest map of the Unitary ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...

The U.S. State Department’s updated international travel page now features an interactive global advisory map showing countries listed under its higher-risk travel warning levels. The interactive map ...

From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made Experts have warned that the world’s ability to feed itself is ...