Long belittled for their ignorance of foreign cultures—not to mention an inability to locate well-known countries on world maps—an increasing number of U.S. high school students are taking courses ...

No, Saudi Arabia is not close to Fresno, England is not close to Thailand and Sweden and Switzerland are not the same country ...

Most of the world’s people, resources, and economic activity are located not in the Western Hemisphere, but in the other hemisphere, particularly Eurasia. In response to this basic feature of world ...

From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted―and still interact―with the environment around them, as well as the ...

To prepare our young people, we owe them a high-quality geography education. When you hold a pencil, you hold the world in your hands. Its raw ingredients make a far-reaching journey around the globe, ...

We all had to learn geography in school. Memorizing capitals, tracing rivers on maps, and trying to remember which mountain ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

The National Geographic World Championship has happened every 2 years since 1993 U.S. teams have won 6 times%2C including 2005 in Budapest%2C Hungary Back at home%2C other U.S. students aren%27t so ...

(Besides Canada, the United States, and Mexico, North America also includes all the sovereign states in the Caribbean and Central America.) ...

The state Board of Education is accepting comments on the Tennessee K-12 social studies standards that are being revised. An Oct. 23 guest column by Daniel Feller and Ernest Freeberg rightly argues ...

This science of place, connection, and change enables you to make a difference. With a career in urban design, public health, migration studies, geospatial analytics, environmental stewardship, arctic ...