The Year in Geography
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.13.06 | 9:02 PM ET
We’ve seen many year-end reviews in the last few weeks,
but few focusing on geography. Ben Keene, who edits the “Oxford Atlas of the World” and writes Ben’s Place of the Week on World Hum, looked back at the year in geography on an Oxford University Press weblog. His mind has been reeling trying to keep up with all the changes in world geography. “Just to emphasize the pace of change in cartography in recent years,” he writes, “it’s worth pointing out that over 30 new nations have been created since 1990, making maps a mere decade old anachronistic curiosities.”