Nationalgeographics

 aka The National Geographic Society

which is based in the United States, is one of the world's largest not-for-profit educational and scientific organizations, with a mission to advance the general knowledge of geography and the world among the general public.

It states its mission to inspire people to care for their planet. To this end, it sponsors and funds scientific research and exploration, and publishes as its official journal, National Geographic magazine, as well as other publications and products in furtherance of its mission.

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It also has heavy involvement in education, including an educational foundation furthering geography education. Its media properties reach 280 million people around the world monthly.
 

National Geographic also publishes and sell National Geographic Maps.

National Geographic Channel

The National Geographic Society has also explored the use of television as a way to bring the travels of its correspondents and its educational and scientific mission into people's homes. National Geographic specials as well as television series have been shown on PBS and other networks in the United States and terrestially globally for many years. (The Geographic series in the U.S. started on CBS in 1964, moved to ABC in 1973 and shifted to PBS in 1975.

The over-the-air specials have become almost as identifiable with the society as the magazine. Over the years, they have introduced Americans to famous science icons from Louis Leakey to Jacques Cousteau. The specials' theme music by Elmer Bernstein, also adopted by the National Geographic Channel, has become one of the most famous in American broadcasting.

In 1997 internationally and in 2001 in the United States, the Society launched, in part ownership with other entities like News Corporation and NBC, television network, the National Geographic Channel (NGC) for cable and satellite viewers, which has global distribution.
 

National Geographic has also expanded into feature films, producing a feature film based on the diary of a Russian submarine commander starring Harrison Ford in K-19: The Widowmaker, and most recently retooling a French-made documentary for U.S. distribution with a new score and script narrated by Morgan Freeman called March of the Penguins, which received an Academy Award for the Best Documentary in 2006.