Curated category
Cultural regions
- Arab worldThe Arab world stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian Ocean…
- Western worldThe Western world has no fixed borders. That simple fact, buried in dictionaries and debated by historians for centuries, turns out to be one of the most…
- MesoamericaMesoamerica is one of only six places on Earth where civilization arose entirely on its own, with no outside blueprint to copy.
- TibetTibet sits higher than anywhere else on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,380 meters above sea level. Mount Everest, which marks its border with Nepal…
- AbkhaziaAbkhazia covers 8,665 square kilometres on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, yet most of the world does not recognise it exists as a country.
- New WorldThe New World arrived in print in the spring of 1503, announced in a single letter written in Lisbon by a Florentine explorer named Amerigo Vespucci.
- Islamic worldThe Islamic world is home to more than 1.8 billion people, a community spanning nearly every continent and speaking hundreds of languages.
- Northern EnglandNorthern England holds a paradox at its heart. With a combined population of 15.5 million people spread across 37,331 square kilometres, it is home to nearly…
- Nordic countriesThe Nordic countries occupy a stretch of the globe so vast it spans five time zones, from the Canadian-facing coast of Greenland in the west to the border…
- KoreaKorea is a peninsular region in East Asia, and for one boundary line it has paid an extraordinary price. Since the end of World War II in Asia in 1945, the…
- ChristendomChristendom is a word coined in the 9th century by a single scribe, somewhere in southern England, possibly at the court of King Alfred the Great of Wessex.
- Bible BeltThe Bible Belt is a region of the American South, parts of the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic states of Virginia and West Virginia, where evangelical…