The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

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

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

Traditional 2-D maps of Earth are highly distorted, but this award-winning design makes a world of difference.

Mapmaking has evolved from the early cartographers measuring horizons to Google Maps telling us every turn. Here are some maps that show how far we've come.

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The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world ...

Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, ‘radically different’ way to see the world By Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications on Feb. 15, 2021, 2:13 p.m.

"People tend to collect maps of places with which they have a special connection," he says. "As people travel more, they have stronger feelings about a wider range of places around the world.

Now, you can zoom around this huge, detailed map of the ancient world labeled with cities from all sorts of archaeological records, classical text references and European imagery ...