This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. America has had two great ... United States4,690,000 sq mi MAPS: RYAN MORRIS, NGM STAFF; THEODORE A.

As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit, ...

which evolved into today’s National Geographic Maps. As in the past, our cartographers continue to illustrate the world around us through the art and science of mapmaking. We adhere to this long ...

A surface weather analysis is a special type of weather map that provides a view of weather elements over a geographical area at a specified time based on information from ground-based weather ...