The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another explains that mathematically, it is impossible to have one accurate flat map.

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas. This ever-evolving map ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller.

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

Why your mental map of the world is (probably) wrong These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct.

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...