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Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

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Russian sanctions backfire as Putin profits from war economy

Russian sanctions backfire as Putin profits from war economy

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Limbo

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Limbo

The four countries successfully reversing democratic decline

The four countries successfully reversing democratic decline

Desert dust triggers clouds to freeze, study finds

Desert dust triggers clouds to freeze, study finds

Geo explainer: What is blue carbon – and why is it so important?

Geo explainer: What is blue carbon – and why is it so important?

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Check out the Better World Video Awards 2025

Limbo short film cover with Better World Video Awards logo

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Limbo

A powerful account of one couple’s struggle to rebuild after catastrophic flooding and the silence that followed
Sacha Dench with swans

Better World Video Awards: Flight of the Swans

Conservationist Sacha Dench embarked on an epic migration of 7,000 km from the Russian Arctic to the UK to save a swan
A photo of a performance by Seenaryo

Better World Video Awards 2025: 10 Years of Seenaryo

How the power of theatre and performance can transform lives across Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Syria
Scenic summer landscape and the river Thames

Better World Video Awards 2025: A River Sings

Find out more about how Evenlode Catchment Partnership are utilising natural flood management measures to protect local UK villages
Senegalese hairdresser facing the camera with better world video awards logo

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Community Empowerment in Senegal

Action Against Hunger’s Boolo Xeex Xibon Project is helping local Senegalese communities to thrive In northern Senegal, child malnutrition has reached emergency levels. But amid the crisis, communities are leading…

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Living with Sharks in the Bahamas

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Living with Sharks in the Bahamas

Sharks are making a comeback, and we need to learn to live with them Living with Sharks in the Bahamas is a new mini-documentary from Shark Trust, which explores what…

Kewang member in the Haruku forest, Indonesia

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Kewang: Nature’s Ancient Guardians

The story of Haruku Island’s traditional nature protectors and their quest to protect fragile ecosystems Kewang: Nature’s Ancient Guardians is a compelling documentary set on Haruku Island in Indonesia’s Maluku…

Better World Video Awards 2025: Linda’s Story

Better World Video Awards 2025: Linda’s Story

Linda’s story of violence, cruelty and exploitation spans more than 20 years. In a powerful short film, she bravely shares her experience
Better World Video Awards 2025: Bricks

Better World Video Awards 2025: Bricks

One year later, actor and animal activist Peter Egan returns to the brick kilns of Egypt with Safe Haven 4 Donkeys
Better World Video Awards 2025

Better World Video Awards 2025

The Geographical and Aggressor Adventures 2025 Better World Video Awards are now open

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QUIZ: US State Shapes
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QUIZ: US State Shapes

Challenge yourself with our quiz on US state shapes. Test your knowledge and earn a discount on a Geographical subscription.
QUIZ: True or False – Natural Hazards
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QUIZ: True or False – Natural Hazards

Test your knowledge on natural hazards with our engaging quiz. Challenge yourself on the Earth’s extreme events and learn more.
QUIZ: Physical Geography Trivia
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QUIZ: Physical Geography Trivia

Challenge yourself with our geography quiz and discover how well you know Earth’s physical features and landscapes.
QUIZ: Flags of the World – Hard
Quizzes

QUIZ: Flags of the World – Hard

Test your knowledge with our FLAGS QUIZ. Discover the significance of different flags and their nations today.
QUIZ: Capital Cities – Easy
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QUIZ: Capital Cities – Easy

Test your knowledge with our capital cities quiz! Can you name the capitals of the world?

Geo explainers

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Eagle Creek Wildfire in Columbia River Gorge forest, Oregon
Science & Environment

Geo explainer: Why are wildfires getting worse?

Discover the several reasons behind increasingly common wildfires around the world, including those in California
After the heavy rains and floods of last week in Merzouga, beautiful lakes have formed along the edges of Erg Chebbi.
Science & Environment

Geo explainer: Will the Sahara flood again?

Discover the Sahara Desert’s fascinating past – and why climate change may make flooding a likely part of its future.
Container cargo ship at industrial port
Briefing

Geo explainer: Where in the world are the busiest shipping lanes?

Take a deep dive into the world’s busiest shipping lanes according to the number of vessels passing through them each day.
Cape Town city and table mountain in the background during sunset
Briefing

Geo explainer: Exploring Africa’s economy and GDP

Five countries account for half of Africa’s total GDP, playing crucial roles in the continent’s economy – but where exactly are they?
Train of Phosphate in Sahara of Tunisia
Briefing

Geo explainer: What is phosphate mining – and why is it important?

Phosphate rock is an essential element for life on Earth. Discover its applications and why its mining threatens planetary health…

Worldview – opinion, comment & campaigns

Artwork of Russian flag and stocks and stacks of money

Russian sanctions backfire as Putin profits from war economy

Designed to topple a regime, sanctions have helped build a fortress economy where loyalty is rewarded and dissent crushed – consolidating Putin’s power.Antonio Graceffo reports
The bias of balance: net zero, denial and political spin

The bias of balance: net zero, denial and political spin

From climate change to Gaza, the pursuit of ‘balance’ often misleads rather than informs, warns Andrew Brooks
Eighty per cent of Finns say that they are happy to help with national defence

Time for Britain to show some sisu

Tim Marshall argues it’s time for the UK to consider Finland’s model for national preparedness The UK needs to rediscover its inner sisu. That is, assuming it still has it.…

We need a Global Climate Club – and we need it now

We need a Global Climate Club – and we need it now

Patrick Brown lays out a vision for a Global Climate Club – and why the world can no longer afford to wait for the USA to catch up
An elderly woman rides a tractor in the countryside

Beyond the farmer’s wife: unpacking gendered spaces

From Scottish tractors to Senegalese rice fields, Andrew Brooks traces how outdated labels still frame women’s work and men’s status across global landscapes

Discovering Britain

The Preseli Mountains at sunrise

Discovering Britain: the stone age secrets of Craig Rhos-y-felin

The lavender fields at Castle Farm

Discovering Britain: Darent Valley, earthly paradise

Scrabo Tower, overlooking Strangford Lough

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

The city grid of Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes: Soulless suburb or urban utopia?

Worcester Cathedral with Watergate in foreground

Discovering Britain: the watery tale of Worcester

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Long reads

Cedar Breaks International Dark Sky Park

Darkness falls, stars rise in Utah’s national parks

A woman sits outside the ruins of houses destroyed in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead

Living among the graves: Cairo’s City of the Dead faces an uncertain future

Small ship cruise lines such as Swan Hellenic are taking the lead on sustainability

Can the cruise industry navigate a sustainable future?

Workers unload a cargo of smoked fish at the train station in Luena, Angola, more than 700 kilometres from Lobito on the coast

The Lobito Corridor: the new scramble for critical minerals

Joey Apachee’s family stands in front of the house he started building for himself and his two children before his death. From left to right: Joe’s mother, Virginia Apachee, daughter, Ashton, and son, Julian

Missing, murdered and forgotten: The Navajo families fight for justice

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Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

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