A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that Asia suffers more weather, climate change, and water-related disasters than any other region in the world.

But some of the first known world maps put south at the top as a matter of course. For example, in 1154 Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi drew a south-up map of Europe, Asia and northern Africa ...

In honor of the CIA's Cartography Center's 75th anniversary, the agency released a bevy of maps detailing the world since the start of the Cold War.