These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...

a map editor and librarian at National Geographic. But there are exceptions. “They have the most comprehensive database available to us, so we base a lot of our work on what they do,” he says.

Renaming geographical place names is the ... an area on the map that would now correspond to the United States. Sheinbaum Pardo projected a map authored in 1607 that labels a rough drawing of ...

in a move that aligns with the company’s policies on handling disputed names for geographical features. Google Maps will be updated to display the name "Gulf of America" instead of the "Gulf of ...

Google Maps users in the United States can expect to see the body of ... until the government updates those site listings in the Geographic Names Information System, an official database that ...