Geography
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The millennia-long battle to control Albania’s Sazan Island
How did the Euphrates River form? We may now know.
How did Texas get its crop circles?
Why the Strait of Hormuz is a geological wonder
Where to see one of California’s best superblooms in years
Margaret Wickens Pearce charts a new way to see the world
America's megachurches are rapidly expanding—thanks to geography
This YouTuber made a travel encyclopedia of the world
Here’s what early European cartographers got right
The lost continent of Zealandia was mapped for the first time
One of Italy’s most visited places is an under-appreciated wine capital
How did Death Valley get its name? Not from the heat
Wine tourism makes a big splash in tiny Uruguay
Swastika Mountain needed a new name. Here’s how it got one.
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