Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

As the magnitude of water shortage issues arise globally, National Geographic Explorers along with the World Freshwater Initiative highlight stories of the communities facing critical challenges.

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Desceliers produced the illustrated, annotated map, full of geographic features both real and imagined.

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Levin had in mind when they hatched their “food map” series—a collection of country and continent maps ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Countries and territories from original TvT data: Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and ...

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.

ByRyan Morris and Ryan Williams This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... with climate researchers to create maps of urban heat islands across the United ...