Pull up the geographic center of California on Google Maps and you'll be led to a unique destination in the state.

This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a blistering day in the megalopolis that is southern California ... a finger across a map of some 60,000 acres ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world ... Florida and the Gulf Coast. In California, San Francisco's hills would ...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

A map of California was ... an undated article about geographic centers from a senior mathematician with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, which became part of the National Oceanic and ...