Images of global weather patterns are projected onto the Science on a Sphere exhibit in the Ocean Science Center at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach in 2014. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) ...

Do your children know where Spain is? Can they find the seas and oceans of the world? Do they know the capital of China? Children need a basic grasp of geography. Many schools participate in geography ...

At a tournament in DC, students compete to identify states from their shapes on a blank US map. They're having fun while acquiring factual knowledge that enables them to think critically. The ...

Northwestern students again have the chance to earn a free Blaze pizza by testing their world geography knowledge during the 2017-18 academic year. Launched in October 2016, the Wildcat GeoGame ...

You might know what Earth looks like on the ground, but how good are you at identifying terrestrial locations from above? Astronaut Scott Kelly, who recently arrived at the International Space Station ...

Since Wordle took the internet by storm earlier this year, there has been a slew of imitators competing for its crown. Many of these have been blatant rip-offs—utilizing the exact same premise while ...

Can you guess where this dusty, country road is? It looks like it could be in the American southwest, but it's actually in southeastern Australia—over 13,500 km away. Thanks to an addictive new ...

The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...

The geography quiz game Globle was a product of quarantine boredom, its popularity a happy side effect. While stuck working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Abe Train, 26, of Toronto, decided ...