Today’s updates to the cartographic world view respond to treaties and armistices, but most importantly, they represent ...

Today’s updates to the cartographic world view respond to treaties and armistices, but most importantly, they represent ...

Can we expunge history by changing names on a map? Borders on our current world map have shifted in the past in response to new geopolitical realities, some reaching back into old vocabulary to ...

Months ago, we booked a vacation to Mexico City with friends. It has been one of those trips that never seemed like it would get here or happen. When I reserved our hotel room, I could see on the map ...

Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a ...

Chicago, for ‘The Bear,’ is depicted — accurately — as a place where the goal is not necessarily to win status or acclaim so ...

In the following visual explainer, Al Jazeera maps the names and meanings of countries ... heart of the Aztec Empire around their capital, Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City. Meaning “place of ...

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is an effort to rework the historical narrative about that geographic area. In good English that ...