The Globby blog
Guides for learning the map, plus facts we checked twice before printing.
How to memorize world flags (and stop mixing up Chad and Romania)
A practical method for learning all the world's flags: group by pattern, study look-alike pairs side by side, and test yourself in short daily rounds.
Which countries have the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
Italy, China, Germany, France and Spain lead the World Heritage List. Here is the top ten, how the count works, and why the numbers change every summer.
How to learn all the countries of the world on a map
There are 195 countries in common use. Here is a region-by-region plan to learn where every one of them is, in about ten minutes a day.
Capital cities people get wrong (and the countries with more than one)
Canberra, not Sydney. Ankara, not Istanbul. A tour of the capitals that trip up quiz players, plus the countries that split the job between several cities.
Where is it from? The real home of 12 famous dishes
Sushi, croissants, tacos al pastor, jollof rice and more: where each dish comes from, and the borrowed history behind several of them.
15 famous landmarks people place in the wrong country
Angkor Wat, Iguazu Falls, Bran Castle, the Great Blue Hole: famous places and the countries they are actually in, with a sentence on each.
14 surprising country facts that are actually true
France has more time zones than Russia, Australia is wider than the Moon, and Lesotho never dips below 1,400 metres. Checked facts, no myths.
A doomscrolling alternative that ends: 10 minutes of geography a day
Why a feed with a last card beats an infinite one, and how to swap ten minutes of scrolling for a daily habit that leaves you knowing the map.