Google Translate Tackles Geography

Oct 26, 2014 by

[This post was originally published in February 2012] Google as a whole can hardly be accused of geographical illiteracy, as Google Maps and Google Earth have become standard tools for numerous professional geographers and amateur...

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Border Disputes over Damansky Island and the Troubled Relations betwee...

Oct 25, 2014 by

Border Disputes over Damansky Island and the Troubled Relations between Russia and China

[This post was originally published in May 2012] The choice of a toponym one uses can be an incendiary matter: Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf, the Sea of Japan or the East Sea, the Falkland Islands or the Malvinas Islands. Another case...

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