Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

On Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau released new population estimates, projections and other demographic data up to the year 2100 for 21 countries and areas, and Newsweek has created an illustrative ...

This quiz will challenge everything you thought you knew about geography. From individual countries to continents and the whole world, you’ll face 34 maps – each flipped, rotated, or turned upside ...

Two decades ago, Google co-founder Larry Page had an idea that would forever change the way we navigate the world. "Larry drove down some of these streets with a video camera and handed it to someone ...