A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

Buy the Guardian from Saturday 18 April 2009 to Friday 25 April 2009 to collect the free World Factfile booklets profiling 195 countries. On Saturday we are giving away a free map of the world to mark ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

The world map most of us have grown up seeing may not show the world as it really is. The United Nations has backed a move to replace the widely used Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, ...

A NEW world map has officially been adopted after a UN vote – with the fresh model reducing the size of Britain and the US while making Africa bigger. The landmark resolution means the traditional ...

Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century. The representation of the world of 1587 by the Milanese cartographer Urbano Monte ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly backed a resolution aimed at changing the way Africa and other regions are represented on world maps. The "Correct the Map" ...