Living in a "temperate zone" often means cold wint...  ...de living in Guatemala City, he looked around the world for places where you can live comfortably without...  ...perature control. That resulted in an interactive map where you can select a place to live where the te...  ...ortable. Find those 13 cities a...

We learned in grade school that America was named...  ...America. The picture here shows one panel of the world map that provided that link.Similarly to many other c...  ...around 1470, Waldseemüller drew his seminal map in 1507 with a colleague, Matthias Ringmann. He c...  ...ias Ringmann. He created a 32-...

This world map is labeled not with country names, but with a bit...  ...and some are real head scratchers. See the full map and each continent at Credit Card Compare. Explor...

A quiz from the Department of Geography at Ghent U...  ...ent University in Belgium is studying how various maps affect how people see the world . You'll be given two countries to compare, and yo...  ...if you are familiar with the distortions of flat maps that depict a round...

Yes, we do have world maps from the time Jesus was born. That’s mainly...  ...time, and left us a 17-volume description of the world as they knew it.Here is what the world looked like to Strabo and his contemporaries: the...  ...d "torrid" band at the very center. The...

Dominik M. Schwarz has always been fascinated with...  ...ominik M. Schwarz has always been fascinated with maps . He's also traveled a lot, and he wanted a big world map -the size of an entire wall, with detailed inform...  ...the places he'd been. He couldn’t find the map...

This cartogram plots the size of each nation as a...  ...lick the original at imgur to greatly enlarge the map . Asia takes up half the world and Canada is reduce to a line. Hawaii by itself...

Back in 2009, Swedish graphic designer Perniclas B...  ...designer Perniclas Bedow created an award-winning map of the world using coins from various countries. The map

This map shows which countries of the world confer citizenship automatically on children born...  ...n born in the country. As you can see, it's a New World concept. Citizenship laws vary in the rest of the...  ...concept. Citizenship laws vary in the rest of the *strong cla...

"Laconic" means "in few words." Here's how Martin...  ...few words." Here's how Martin Elmer created this map :This map was produced by running all the various countries...  ...noted at Flickr. Drag the image around to see the world