He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him ... annotated map, full of geographic features both real and imagined. “It’s one of the most beautiful ...

This video can help pupils learn about the physical geography of the Earth ... teachers could use a base map to explore the make up of the world and where the features explored in the video ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

Maps are useful tools to help people navigate and locate places and features. Maps of different ... two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved.