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

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

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

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

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

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 ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead.

From space, the Earth looks like a ball. Find out how the world is mapped with this year 5/6 BBC Bitesize geography guide.

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

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 ...

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.