The National Geographic Society is an American scientific and educational organization founded on 13 January 1888 in Washington, D.C., with its certificate of incorporation formally signed on 27 January 1888. It was formed by thirty three explorers, geographers, teachers, lawyers, cartographers, military officers and financiers, including Alexander Graham Bell and his father in law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, explorers John Wesley Powell and Adolphus Greely, and scholar George Kennan, for the stated purpose of the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge. It is today among the largest scientific and educational nonprofit organizations in the world.
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Founding Year Headquarters1145 17th Street, Washington, D.C., U.S. 1 In the Other Atlases
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National Geographic Society, Description, status
The National Geographic Society is an American scientific and educational organization founded on 13 January 1888 in Washington, D.C., with its certificate of incorporation formally signed on 27 January 1888. It was formed by thirty three explorers, geographers, teachers, lawyers, cartographers, military officers and financiers, including Alexander Graham Bell and his father in law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, explorers John Wesley Powell and Adolphus Greely, and scholar George Kennan, for the stated purpose of the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge.
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