10 Maps That Will Change How You View The World

By Tom Hale, IFLScience photo credit: Cameron Beccario Maps are one of those things you can lose yourself in for hours. Since their humble origins as scribbles in the sand thousands of millennia ago, maps have been useful companions during the development of human culture and society. Now, in an age of seemingly endless information, maps are more abundant, advanced…

Countries as Named in Their Own Languages

By Arika Okrent The Afternoon Map IMAGE CREDIT: ENDONYMMAP.COM Countries are called by different names depending on who’s doing the calling. Is it The United States of America or Les États-Unis? Deutschland or Germany? A country’s own name for itself is called an endonym, and at endonymmap.com you can find a map of the world’s endonyms. The…