geography

Give Siri a break and hand a physical map to the kids in the back seat and let them tell you how to get to your destination.

Geography matters. Whether countries are rich or poor or safe or vulnerable still has more to do with physical geography than we usually acknowledge.

A new survey of Twitter users suggests that as global as the world’s major cities have become, the people in them tend to remain staunchly local.

Should we re-draw our borders? This question keeps coming up whenever societies or groups of people face existential national threats or serious challenges to systems or institutions that organize society.

India is endowed with favorable geographic barriers. Surrounded by oceans on three sides and the formidable Himalayan Mountains to the north, what is now modern India has been free of outside interference for much of its long history.

Daily Overview is a project that aims to help change how we see Earth. It shows at least one satellite image a day from shows many satellite photos but at least once a day from Digital Globes, a provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services.