Facebook is trying to help change that by creating a high-resolution population density map for nearly the entire continent of Africa.

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

The updates are specifically for HERE's downloadable maps, not the Android app itself - if you're a regular user of the compartmentalized maps in Africa, you should get a notification to re ...

The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more ...

Palestine to Africa: How maps lie — and some tell the truth Conflicts in Palestine, Ukraine, the Indian Ocean and other areas also spill over into the realm of cartography.

Africa is much bigger than you think. Here’s how you’ve been misled A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame ...

COLUMN: Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa.