But most of us don't. Geography is destiny in other ways as well. Just check any country in Europe or Africa or the Middle East.

She handed out a blank map, and gave her students simple instructions: Identify Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. "The results were really mind-opening to me," she said.

Robby K. Bemrose, W. Mark Brown, Jesse Tweedle, Going the distance, The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'Economique, Vol. 53, No. 3 (August / Août ...

The award-winning map designer has just released The Essential Geography of the Sea to Sky, a richly detailed map that shows the corridor up the Sea to Sky Highway (Hwy. 99) from Metro Vancouver ...