Borders are essentially artificial in nature. They're really just lines on the map that the rest of the world accepts enough to integrate into the applicable global political and legal regimes.

The scale of illegal border crossings in the United States has been laid bare in a new analysis of the latest official figures. A map created by Newsweek highlights the states facing the biggest ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

More than 75 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders ... maps explaining why. The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World ...