No matter what time of year you visit, almost four million square miles of vistas, rich cultures, and heart-warming moments await in Canada. Like its vast landscapes, the people in Canada are ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Ryan uses the left-hand screen to display the colored maps he generates from his ever growing database of soil ...

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.

Escape to the rugged beauty of Canada’s first national park ... is the Valley of Ten Peaks at Moraine Lake,” says the National Geographic Explorer. “To have terrain like that so accessible ...