Maria, go to the map and find North America.” Maria obliged and pointed to North America. The teacher said: “Correct! Now, ...

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A NASA map shows the size of the Antarctic ozone hole at its largest point this year, when it spread to the size of North America. The ozone layer protects life on Earth from the sun's ultraviolet ...

For years, tiny Rugby, N.D. had made a name for itself from its designation as the Geographical Center of the North American Continent – that is, until a bar owner about a hundred miles south ...

You probably wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the outer Aleutian Islands, stretching between Alaska and Russia, are home to the westernmost point of land in North America. But did you know ...

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday she sent a letter to Google opposing a decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Google Maps.

This map shows seismic speed in the Earth’s crust at 200 kilometers depth across the continental United States and portions of Central America and Canada.

North and South America This map, drawn in 1540 by by Sebastian Münster, was the very first printed map that called the great body of water to the west of the land by the name Pacific.

As it does every year, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Command, tracked Santa on his trip around the world on Christmas Eve so children and families could see where he was.

The world maps that have hung on school walls in Boston and around the country portray North America as larger than Africa (but it’s not) and Alaska as more mammoth than Mexico (also untrue).

Cedar Point was the 15th most popular theme park in North America last year by attendance, according to an annual report from Themed Entertainment Association. Roughly 3,444,000 people visited ...