Russia shares land borders with more countries than any nation on Earth. Its vast size, history and location across two ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Drawing a balance sheet of post-colonial rule is indispensable. Clarifying which leaderships and programmes failed, why they ...

You find what space you can in Burundi, where 14m people squeeze into an area not much bigger than Wales or Massachusetts.

The attack on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro herald the decoupling of Trump’s United States from the rules-based international order, and the end of liberal order as a whole. A ...

Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...

Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica.

Yet despite its apparent absurdity, its journey is a reminder of how few modern boats ply African waterways, and how much ...

The State Department’s interactive map shows danger zones across much of the world. As of Dec. 26, 22 countries appear under ...

Did you know there are seven massive landmasses on Earth called continents? These include Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Each one has its own ...

AVALON, New Zealand — Under New Zealand, there lies a vast continent on the sea floor. Once part of the same land mass as Antarctica and Australia, the lost continent of Zealandia broke off 85 million ...