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

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

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

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.

With Google Maps Platform, designed to help businesses and developers incorporate geospatial data into their products and services, these updates are important to businesses around the world.

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

A map of the world can teach kids about so many things — not just different countries in the world, but also where they live in comparison to other countries, features of different countries … ...

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 ...

A rare and enlightening Chinese map of the world journeys to the U.S.

Read an excerpt from A History Of The World In Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton.