China is far and away the largest consumer of tea, at 1.6 billion pounds a year. But per person, as illustrated in the map above, the picture is a lot different: Turkey, Ireland, and the United ...

After 700 cumulative hours of labor spread over five days, and using up 36 gallons of weather-resistant paint, the monumental map depicting more than 150 countries was completed. "The World's ...

The size-comparison map tool that's available on mylifeelsewhere.com offers a geography lesson like no other, enabling users to places maps of countries directly over other landmasses.

A Newsweek map based on World Bank data charts the external debts owed to China by more than 100 countries. Newsweek has contacted the Chinese Foreign Ministry for comment by email. Why It Matters ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, making them appear different to reality.

Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s which most maps you commonly ...

In Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, English is the de facto language, while the remaining 56* official anglophone countries include clusters in the Caribbean (Barbados, the Bahamas ...

Update: A professor who studies race and ethnic conflict responds to this map. Ethnicity, like race, is a social construct, but it's still a construct with significant implications for the world ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

A comparison of the Harvard and Goren maps show that the most diverse countries in the world are found in Africa. Both maps also suggest that the United States falls near the middle, while Canada and ...

The world’s fattest countries have been revealed in a new interactive map published by Our World in Data, which uses data compiled from figures from 195 countries around the world and shows the ...

Here’s a closer look at the countries holding elections, in maps and charts. India, the world’s most populous country, has already held the largest election this year.