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The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.

The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.

Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.

EV charging stations are the most widespread alternative to gas and diesel pumps. Each alternative has its own hotspots and “deserts.”

The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.

The weirdest thing about the 21 feet found near Vancouver since 2007? Foul play has been ruled out.

To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?

One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.

Urinating in the direction of NATO’s staunchest opponent could cost you $350 or more. For world peace, aim wisely.

This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.

“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair

An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.

In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it’s cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.

The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.

Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.

Diplomacy is war by other means.

Here’s why mega-eruptions like the ones that covered North America in ash are the least of your worries.

Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.

The U.S. has the world’s largest debt in absolute terms, but Japan’s is the largest when measured in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio.

France is split in two by its very own “desert,” the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.

Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.

Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.

The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.

Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.

With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.

America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.

Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.

One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was a rather powerless virgin.

Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.

There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.