This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Prizes of Game of Map Hunting Explained
A National Geographic bulletin describes map hunting as a cross between word games and geography. It highlights how map study reveals multilingual word roots, place-name patterns, and regional terms from Peking to Beersheba and Yangtze Kiang, with notes on Arabic and Indian toponyms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Peking
Nanyuan
Peiyuan
Nan
Nanking
China
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Europe
Russia
Dniester Dnieper
Don
Africa
Arabia
Bir Garrab
Egypt
Bir Soluk
Cyrenaica
Bir-el-Melosah
Damascus-Bagdad
Beersheba
Sheba
Abraham
Sarah
Jacob
Esau
Belijah
Jezebel
Great River
Spain
Granada
Guadalajara
Mexico
New World
England
Singapore
Bhagalpur
India
Kiang Si
Shan Si
Kwang Si
West Coast
West