what year was national geographic founded

what year was national geographic founded

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The National Geographic Society was founded on January 13, 1888. The society was established "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge". The first issue of the National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. The magazine was initially a scholarly journal sent to 165 charter members, and it contained no photographs. However, it began including pictures in 1905, and its first color photos appeared in the 1910s. Today, National Geographic is a popular magazine that reaches around 60 million readers worldwide each month.

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