Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
by This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1977, …
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Events to Shake, or Gently Rattle, the World in 2025
GERMANY, Oct. 15-19: The Frankfurt Book Fair, established in 1949, is the world’s largest trade fair for books. Held annually in October, the event attracts …
Alice Hudson, Librarian Who Built a Trove of Historic Maps, Dies at 77
Alice Hudson, who, after enrolling in a mandatory geography course in college, took a detour from her plan to become a professional translator and went …
Did You Know Russia & The United States Are Just 2 Miles Apart In The Diomede Islands – Brilliant Maps
The map above shows the Diomede Islands where the distance between the Russia on Big Diomede Island and The United States on Little Diomede Island …
If You’re In Windsor, Ontario, Canada & Want To Get To Detroit You Have To Head North Rather Than South – Brilliant Maps
The map above shows an unintuitive geographical fact. If you’re in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and want to visit Detroit on the US side of the …
Watch The Reconquista In Just 60 Seconds – Brilliant Maps
The video above is a sped up version of the following video showing the The Reconquista: Every Year. In 711 Islamic Umayyad Caliphate sent their …
Population Growth & Decline of Japan’s Prefectures From 1920-2020 – Brilliant Maps
The video above shows the rise and now fall of Japan’s population by prefecture between 1920 and 2020. Japan’s population today is still 125% higher …
Where Are VPNs Restricted/Illegal? – Brilliant Maps
Egypt Currently restricted 8/18/2018 Ongoing Egypt’s President signed the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes legislation into law on August 18, 2018. The anti-cybercrime law gave …
Why Call It “The Rust Belt”? | Newgeography.com
There’s a question I get every so often in social media – “why do you use the term “Rust Belt”?“ Usually it comes from people …
How Sydney CBD Became a Capital of Luxury Urbanity | Newgeography.com
With a great deal of success, urban development elites have been able to sustain the illusion that Central Business Districts or downtowns are still the …
America First Can’t Be America Alone | Newgeography.com
Like others, Canadians now know there’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s neither polite nor gentle. The question is how to co-exist with a …
Climate Change, Insurance, and the LA Fires | Newgeography.com
Scientific American blames the Los Angeles fires on climate change. A Yale University publication agrees. An article in Quartz predicts that climate change is going …
The Return of American Class Politics | Newgeography.com
In his farewell address, mere days before leaving the White House, Joe Biden made a dramatic intervention. Warning about how an oligarchy of “extreme wealth, …
Hydroclimate Whiplash: the Impact on California Wildfires
Hydroclimate whiplash is defined by climatologists as the rapid swing between extremely dry and extremely wet conditions. Understanding the effects of hydroclimate whiplash has become …
Florida’s Largest Open Water Estuary
Covering an area of about 400 square miles (1,036 square kilometers) of surface water and shallow wetlands, Tampa Bay is Florida’s largest open water estuary. …
Cartopareidolia: Seeing People and Animals in Maps
Cartopareidolia is the tendency of the human brain to see shapes, such as animals or faces, in the outlines of geographical features on maps. What …
Shapefile Viewers
Explore viewers for visualizing GIS vector data in shapefile format, available for both desktop and web browsers. What is a shapefile? The shapefile format also …
Sado Island: An Example of Tripartite Geography
Sado Island is Japan’s sixth largest island. Located in the eastern region of the Sea of Japan, this island features a tripartite physical geography. This …
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