Nations worldwide maintain territories for strategic and military purposes, often remnants of colonial empires.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed in 1949 when the 12 founding nations signed the Washington Treaty. Central to ...

World maps distort — it's inherent in their design. Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a flat plane (paper), and some parts of the sphere are going to get stretched. On ...

Two decades ago, Google co-founder Larry Page had an idea that would forever change the way we navigate the world. "Larry drove down some of these streets with a video camera and handed it to someone ...

A look back in time: This cartogram resizes each country by its population in 2005. World maps distort. It's inherent in their design. Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a ...

If you’re having trouble with your internet connection, one of the first things tech support will ask you to do is to run a speed test. There are dozens of websites and apps that will, at the tap of a ...

The U.S. is among more than 30 countries that allow for unrestricted birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship means that a person born in a country, regardless of their parents' immigration ...

A cartogram posted on Reddit shows what the world looks like if you scale countries by their population. Watch out China! India is catching up... World maps distort — it's inherent in their design.