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Cartography (from Greek χάρτης khartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.

Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.

National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society.

It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded.

It primarily contains articles about science, geography, history, and world culture.

The magazine is known for its thick square-bound glossy format with a yellow rectangular border and its extensive use of dramatic photographs.

Exploration is the act of for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.

Exploration occurs in all non-sessile animal species, including humans.

In human history, its most dramatic rise was during the Age of Discovery when European explorers sailed and charted much of the rest of the world for a variety of reasons.

Since then, major explorations after the Age of Discovery have occurred for reasons mostly aimed at information discovery.

Geography (from Greek, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.

The first person to use the word "γεωγραφία" was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC).

Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of the Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be.

It is often defined in terms of the two branches of human geography and physical geography.

The four historical traditions in geographical research are: spatial analyses of natural and the human phenomena, area studies of places and regions, studies of human-land relationships, and the Earth sciences.

Geography has been called "the world discipline" and "the bridge between the human and the physical sciences".

Earth (from), otherwise known as the World (especially in geopolitics and geography), is the third planet from the Sun and the only object in the Universe known to harbor life.

It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets.