Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

Cartography has always shaped worldview and geopolitics, and often for the worse. So it does in the era of Donald Trump.

This week, the USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins issued a memo declaring an emergency situation on national forests and taking ...

cartography to history, fun facts to moving stories. At National Geographic we believe in the power of storytelling to change the world. We are one of the world’s leading nonfiction publishers ...

European colonialism in the Horn of Africa region has divided the historic land of Somali people into various territories like current Djibouti, Somalia, as well as some Somali inhibited regions that ...

The National Park Service (NPS ... with thoughtful design showcasing some of the best cartography in the field. These maps ...