That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t map retrospectively. I had a stab, many years ago, at hand-drawing a map of the wider London area in Anglo-Saxon times.

Japan's 10 biggest cities are spread out across its three largest islands: Honshu, Hokkaido, and Kyushu. While crowds are drawn to these destinations, the country's fourth main island, Shikoku, serves ...

Although the first to implement the change, Google Maps is not the only one. Apple Maps and Bing have subsequently also followed suit, with both now displaying the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America.

Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America as the name for the large body of water. Bloomberg reported the change would be rolled out to users in the U.S. first before being rolled out globally.

Kagawa is so synonymous with udon noodles that the tourism board sometimes refers to it as “Udon Prefecture.” The local variety, called sanuki udon, is famous for the firm chewiness of the noodles, ...

Because previous world maps depicted only Europe, Asia, and Africa, this discovery warranted a new map. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published one that included—and named ...

Overview On the west side of Honshu. Prefectures: Hyogo, Kyoto, Mie, Nara, Osaka, Shiga and Wakayama. Leads Japan in the solar cell and lithium-ion/fuel cell industries. Geography Kansai reaches from ...

In Honshu, a purpose-drawn map demarcates the numerous "disaster memorial facilities" strung out along the 500km stretch of coastline affected by The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011.

Kyushu island and northern part of the Kyushu region in Japan, political map with prefectures. One of the four major islands of Japan, southwest of Honshu and Shikoku, separated by Seto Inland Sea.

This political map of the world depicts the extent of territories, both on land and at sea (submerged lands), which are under the control of all independent nations. The map incorporates Exclusive ...

The final version of the map will contain about 51,000 540-kilometre-long strips, contained in 1764 tiles. In mid-June, NASA released 48 of those tiles, and they cover five of Mars’ most ...