As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and ...

The United Nations has voted to replace the current world map with a new one following backlash from campaign groups ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, ...

The UN General Assembly has adopted the Equal Earth projection to replace the 400-year-old Mercator map, pushing to correct a centuries-old cartographic distortion that severely shrinks the African ...

Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection of the Earth, are showing countries to be inaccurate in sizing. Some countries are shown to be a lot bigger than they really are in and around the ...

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...