The 2021 Quality of Government Index shows how much trust the citizens of Europe place in each other and in their elected politicians.

The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.

Two mounds of rice and a tiny flag in a sea of curry is enough to re-heat an old territorial conflict.

This map shows that the territories discovered by Europeans add up to an area no bigger than Utah.

This might help you make it to the end of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic.

U.S. states vary radically in terms of electricity generation. Vermont is the cleanest, while Delaware is the dirtiest.

All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.

Esoteric evidence points to a ritual performed by Queen Elizabeth's court magician John Dee.

Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.

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

In Louisiana, high school starts at 7:30 am. Research shows that is at least an hour too early.

Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.

Topologists can't tell donuts from coffee mugs, but their maps are revelatory nonetheless.

A European start-up uses satellite data to pinpoint individual sources of abnormal methane concentration.

The world's most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world's strangest toponyms.

Giant Christmas image took 80 miles and nine hours to make

Although London is predominantly Christian, this map shows an archipelago of different faiths throughout the city.

Not so long ago, we had better maps of Mars than of Antarctica. Now, Antarctica is the best-mapped continent in the world.

Three scientists have produced a map of the world which accurately reflects the size of all the continents. They're calling the Equal Earth Projection.

America's fear of an Anglo-Japanese alliance led Canada to worry about a U.S. attack—and in the end, devise a scheme for a 'pre-emptive invasion' of its southern neighbor.

By the late 18th century, up to 70% of the soldiers manning the ships of the Dutch East India Company came from outside the Netherlands

Faith is in retreat, atheism is on the march. But only in China does a majority positively state they don’t believe in God.

No international borders, no international order—and yet, most land borders are not very old: more than half were drawn after 1900.

These maps offer a glimpse of what’s been lost – or rather, destroyed – by previous generations.

Englishman Andy Pardy is traveling 18,000 miles (30,000 km) across Europe this summer to make a continent-sized political statement

Just ten rivers are responsible for up to 95% of all river-borne plastic trash that ends up in the sea. Silver lining: cleaning them up would have a huge positive impact.

America's corn syrup fields are big enough to cover all its airports and railroads, and other surprising lessons from a 'tidied-up' map of America's land use zones

More than 20,000 people have signed a petition for Batman, one of Turkey's 81 provinces, to be re-shaped so its borders resemble the Bat-Signal.

Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world's roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones.

Hungary's Two-Tailed Dog Party campaigns on an 'anti-anti-immigration platform, with slogans such as: “Sorry about our Prime Minister”, and “Feel free to come to Hungary, we already work in England anyway!”