Transcontinental Countries: Which Countries Span Two Continents?
A transcontinental country has sovereign territory in more than one continent. Under the conventional seven continent model, Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Egypt are the clearest contiguous examples. Georgia and Azerbaijan can also qualify depending on where the Europe and Asia boundary is drawn, while France represents a different case because parts of the French Republic lie on separate continents. There...Continue Reading
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Countries With No Rivers: The Verified List
Some countries have no permanent natural rivers, but the often-repeated claim that there are exactly 17, 18 or 19 “riverless countries” is harder to defend than it appears.…
Part of a Geographic Travels series examining how governments and institutions map geographic vulnerability, and what those maps reveal, emphasize or leave out. Editor’s note: This article was…
United States Overlaid the Moon
Reddit user boredboarder8 created the below image overlaying the United States on the Moon. The lower forty-eight United States would cover about twenty percent of the Moon’s surface…
Last Friday I blogged about Near Earth Objects (NEOs), space debris which come dangerously close to the Earth. I mentioned how most objects are currently unknown. Lo and…
Update: March 13, 2013 G Updated map including Pope Francis View Map of Non-European Popes in a larger map ———————————————————————————————————- Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to resign has taken both the…
Operation Pillar of Cloud Israel-Gaza War Map: One – Extended Hamas Rocket Threat Range
Originally published November 16, 2012 — restored with updated historical context. Several days before this article was originally published, I found an Israel Defense Forces infographic showing the…
The Geographical Oddity of Fortaleza de São João Baptista de Ajudá
In the middle of Ouidah, in present-day Benin, stands the Fortaleza de São João Baptista de Ajudá, also known as the Fort of St. John the Baptist of…
Omnes Viae: Itinerarium Romanum – Google Maps from AD 400
The Tabula Peutingeriana is an amazing map. It shows roads, cities and major towns, and physical geographic features across the Roman world as represented in late antiquity. It…
The Geographic Analysis of How to Get Protesters to Tahrir Square
Originally published June 8, 2011 — restored with updated historical context. iRevolution highlighted a Tufts GIS Poster Expo-winning project titled Identifying Strategic Protest Routes for Civil Resistance. The…
Map of Where the Twelve Apostles Died
This map shows the traditional locations associated with the deaths of Jesus’ Twelve Apostles. It has also been updated to include Saint Matthias, who was chosen to replace…