Back in 2010, popular web comic xkcd created a Map of the Internet, giving a rough idea of which countries and companies owned which IP addresses.The project has inspired a much more ambitious ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it ...

Illustration by Richard Morden; the poster is available for purchase here. The Pangaean supercontinent, along with the interior Tethys Ocean, existed about 200 to 250 million years ago, what would ...

A fantastic map from webcomic artist Randall Munroe shows the relative surface areas of all the rocky planets and moons in the solar system as though they were continents branching off from the ...

A new map pack has been released for Sid Meier’s Civilization 5, with another due to arrive next month. The Scrambled Continents map pack is now available for $4.99. Additionally, the Scrambled ...