No doubting the scholarly rigour of this highly visual production, which reflects maps’ many distinctive styles and ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

Bill argues that because clocks start at 12 and maps start at 0°, the entire coordinate system is wrong. Dan explains that ...

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

1950 South African World bantamweight champion Vic Toweel sets a record for knockdowns title fight against Danny Sullivan in ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

New Zealand's stunning beauty and rich Māori culture are often overlooked on world maps due to its geographic isolation and the limitations of map projections like Mercator. This recurring omission, ...

In school, I was, and still am, excellent in geography and history, but very poor in Arabic grammar and mathematics, and average in the other subjects. The world map has been my passion ever since I ...

For generations, schools, media outlets and decision-makers have relied on a familiar world map. It has become a global standard, seen everywhere from classroom posters to government buildings. But ...