TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Apologies to the owner of this image, because I saved it in 2007 without noting the source.  This is obviously not a map of all highways, bu...

“People using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Lake America,' those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario,’ and those outside of the U....

This explains everything.  And it's accurate (tilt your head to the left...) Addendum :  rotated... (found in the discussion thread at t...

To celebrate the nation's 250th birthday, the New York Times has created an impressive interactive map depicting the self-reported ethni...

Take your time pondering this clever map from xkcd .  When you give up, there is a link to the answer at the Kottke via.  (New England is o...

Explanation at the geography subreddit.

I found this game today I think via Metafilter.  The game chooses a random world capital city and invites you to guess it within 6 tries.  A...

Bet someone they can't name the country with which France shares its longest border , and give them three or four guesses... "Ge...

"An aerial view of an octagonal fortress that forms one of the most extraordinary cities in the world. Constructed in the 17th-century ...

I didn't know when I encountered the question in a crossword puzzle.  The answer may win you a bar bet.

I've always been fascinated by places like this.  The one in this image is the Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Meteora in Greece.   Pr...

Via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk .  Reposted from 2015  because I'm tired of reading all the grim news.

Geography trivia for the week: identify the only country that straddles all four hemispheres of the earth:  north and south, east and west. ...

This was an Astronomy Photo of the Day last week.  I had to look up The Three Merlons : The Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Italian for 'Three P...

This is the King of Wings outcrop in New Mexico.  The image was an Astronomy Picture of the Day . Related: a tennis ball hoodoo

The graphic is pretty much self-explanatory, but there is extended commentary at Atlas Obscura .

The video above is rather interesting.  It began when someone browsing Google Earth spotted a geographic anomaly in Madagascar and wondered ...

Image from a Reddit post, where the discussion comments are trivial.  Here's more information from Wikipedia : A demonym (/ˈdɛmənɪm/; f...

What an amazing place. And all those hiking trails.  I do wish the videographer had spent more time lingering over some of those locations. ...