The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's auction ...

The U.S. population is spread out among 3.8 million square miles across 50 states, yet nearly one-third of Americans live in just three states: California, Texas and New York. New York City alone has ...

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Google Maps now officially shows the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America if you open the app in the US. In a blog post, Google said it rolled out the named change because the government has already ...

The size of the wildfires would cover a large portion of the United States. The raging fires in Australia have burned over 12.35 million acres of land -- with at least 24 people killed and more than 2 ...

It’s late October, and just like that, leaves and trees in at least half of the nation have reached their peak fall colors, dazzling onlookers with shades of yellow, orange, red and purple. The ...