In contrast, the most educated metro areas in the country include Ann Arbor, Michigan, Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ...

Indiana's 92 counties are named for individuals who played a role in the Revolutionary War, with some of the most well-known ...

Map America by at least part of its European heritage (German Americans are the nation’s largest ethnic group, at about 46 million), and you get a patchy Midwest that looks more like this: ...

America. In 1507, Martin Waldesmüller became the first cartographer to draw a map in which America was a free-floating entity—truly a new continent.

There've been similar maps built from phone call data. The idea here is to show America not as 50 states, but as regions where people do stuff together. In other words, a "Whom Do You Hang With?" map.

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters ...

Maps also can recall other dark moments in American history. This 1885 "Official Map of Chinatown" in San Francisco, highlights gambling houses (pink), opium dens (yellow), Chinese prostitution ...

Newsweek has created a map to show which U.S. states have the highest number of ex-service members. California has the most veterans living in the state, with 1.5 million.

The first of three maps "visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs. Lands ...

Apple maps and Bing Maps have also changed the name to Gulf of America on their apps. Here's what to know about the recent switch and the names some people have given it using a new site by MapQuest.