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@NatGeo · Global · joined 18 Nov 2008
Step into wonder and find your inner explorer with National Geographic 🌎
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With wings spread and head held high, this Adélie penguin presents a dapper figure as it waddles through an Antarctic colony. https://t.co/K7c7YvWJrD
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Presented by @Rolex. Africa's rivers are at the center of its thriving biodiversity—and National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes is on a mission to protect them for generations to come. https://t.co/tPGOitDV8y
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How do you travel faster than the speed of light? You have to take one of the universe's back doorways.
Discover more about LOST IN SPACE: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe: https://t.co/u1HLaLqMff https://t.co/TjV23wMeYg
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You don't need thousands of dollars of camera equipment to photograph the night sky. With a smartphone and guidance from astrophotographer Sadeq Hayati, you can learn how to capture phenomena like the Milky Way, star trails, and the northern lights. 🔗 https://t.co/DrSuVLHVVs
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School looks a little different for loon chicks. During their first 12 weeks, they learn essential survival skills from their parents, including how to swim, dive, and forage.
#InsideTheEnchantedWaterways is now streaming on @DisneyPlus. https://t.co/KCzhPSRbhY
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August’s Photos of the Day encompassed bursts of color in Nebraska's sky, a flamboyance of flamingos, and seal pups taking their first dips in the ocean. Nat Geo’s photography department picked 23 classic images to highlight alongside the stories behind them. 🔗
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Hollywood takes plenty of liberties with Ancient Rome—but gladiators really were sex symbols. While most looked nothing like the sculpted heroes portrayed on screen, multiple sources reveal why Roman society found these fighters so irresistible. 🔗 https://t.co/JoDrPkBXcc
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@NatGeo New? That's my cousin Luis! What's he been telling you?!
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@NatGeo *new cat discovered in the wild*
*immediately judges you* https://t.co/mVnoG1MVY6
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@NatGeo actually, the last cat to be discovered was 2 years ago when I first met my discord kitten
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@NatGeo We got new cats before GTA6 https://t.co/Fw7NQFaiBC
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@NatGeo i wanted to hear her miau? why the music, don’t silence her
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Off Pebbles Beach in Barbados, photographer Ana Elisa Sotelo joined horse handler Glenfield Clarke on a morning swim with a racehorse named Zorah. Sotelo says she was mesmerized by the way the horse and groom seemed to “become kind of like one creature.” https://t.co/fizNFWupcY
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Millions of years from now, the traces of our lives will be buried in Earth’s layers. Plastics, silicon chips, concrete, and other technofossils may offer future archaeologists a record of how we lived, consumed, and reshaped the planet. 🔗 https://t.co/afshXp349P
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Nearly 5,000 years ago, the people of the Indus Valley Civilization built Mohenjo Daro. Filmmakers Haya Fatima Iqbal and Nadir Siddiqui charted this ancient city from above—and they took National Geographic readers along for the journey. 🔗 https://t.co/SpjwAJq9xC
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Everest: The Other Side is "nail-biting", “thrilling", and "exhilarating"!
Experience it only in theaters and IMAX worldwide on October 30. https://t.co/mk3n64EiVC
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Presented by @Rolex. Welcome to Africa 🌍 Africa Earth's Wild Home takes you deep into the heart of our wildest continent, bringing you closer to its animals, landscapes, and the people watching over it than ever before. https://t.co/VTtmMGXJAJ
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When 33 men were trapped underground in a collapsed mine, the entire world followed their struggle for survival and the race to get them out.
#ChileanMineRescue: Race Against Time premieres September 25 at 8/7c on National Geographic. Streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu https://t
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High school teacher Kent Hups made history when he discovered the first adult T. rex trackway last year. Working with National Geographic Explorer Tyler Lyson, the pair excavated five footprints, each preserved as a 3D shape in ancient rocks: https://t.co/GM4ZTPFZ13 https://t.co/
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A baby auk learns how to fly in the most extreme way possible, but it's got support as it takes its first airborne journey.
#IncredibleAnimalJourneys is now streaming on @DisneyPlus https://t.co/IOPOERLLS6
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Several European cities have spent years removing sewage and industrial waste from their waterways, making them fit for swimming. During a summer of unprecedented heat waves, these once-polluted urban rivers have become a popular and timely cooling option. 🔗
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One day, Phil Gordon's house will slide 247 feet (75 meters) off a sheer cliff outside of Homer, Alaska. While he could relocate to a sturdier plot of land, Gordon refuses to let his home fall—so he's moving the property to a safe distance back: https://t.co/CqpF543fbU https://t
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September is a great time to travel, as seasonal changes create new reasons to explore, restaurants serve the bounty of the local harvest, and the busy summer period eases in many destinations. Here are five spectacular places to visit. 🔗 https://t.co/h2HH0i04DU
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Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson skied the biggest lines on earth. They had one left. The direct north face of Everest is the ultimate line on the ultimate mountain. https://t.co/pppTffKAhQ
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Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison shared a dream to climb and ski Everest’s direct North Face, a feat no one had ever accomplished. From Academy Award®-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and @jimkchin, Everest: The Other Side, only in theaters and IMAX worldwide on October 30. http
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It's lions vs buffalo. Can lion teamwork make the lion dream work, or will the buffalo win this round?
#NatGeoLION is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. https://t.co/bepzqolRIe
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There are plenty of new reasons to get away in 2026. Hand-picked by the Nat Geo team, our list of Best of the World 2026: New Hotels celebrates standout stays across the globe, including a Scottish nature preserve in the northern Highlands and stays closer to wildlife and local h
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Bubbler crabs give an entirely new meaning to the term "beach ball."
#InsideTheEnchantedWaterways is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. https://t.co/E87pmoUj0Y
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Against accounts of the same size
35 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10M+ follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views165 869this account52 609median for 10M+
Reach, %0.59%this account0.29%median for 10M+
Engagement, %0.36%this account0.78%median for 10M+
| Metric | This account | Median for 10M+ | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 165 869 | 52 609 | 3.15× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.59% | 0.29% | 2.04× |
| Engagement rate | 0.36% | 0.78% | 0.46× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
117.5K17 Sep
726.2K
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373.1K
138.1K
84K18 Sep
59.6K
270.5K19 Sep
210K20 Sep
138.9K21 Sep
150.2K22 Sep
103.7K23 Sep
184.6K
127.3K24 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
3.55%17 Sep
4.37%
2.55%
2.34%
3.06%
2.78%18 Sep
3.50%
0.06%19 Sep
0.16%20 Sep
0.48%21 Sep
0.21%22 Sep
0.42%23 Sep
0.13%
1.97%24 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10M+ accounts is 0.78%.
What the audience does
Likes92.2%82 092 in total
Reposts3.8%3 366 in total
Replies1.0%848 in total
Quotes0.3%266 in total
Bookmarks2.8%2 513 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 18 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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