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 ...

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

And AuthaGraph aims to provide a map where each of these interests is more accurately understood and represented on the globe. So, if you'd like to educate yourself on what the world actually ...

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

How do you represent the world globe on a flat surface? Can it be done without distorting the sizes of countries and continents and the distances between places? What would it take to make an accurate ...

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

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

Images from A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators & Storytellers show how many ways there are to understand the world and each person’s place in it ...

How do you flatten a sphere? For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our round planet on anything other than a globe. Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work ...

A Belgian map collector has discovered what he claims is the oldest globe depicting the New World—but some are skeptical.

Boston schools ditch conventional world maps in favor of this one By Akilah Johnson Globe Staff,March 16, 2017, 8:59 p.m.