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 ...

A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas. This ever-evolving map allows people to create art using a limited number of pixels over time.

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

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

Explore the fascinating history of world maps, from ancient to modern times, and their impact on our understanding of geography and culture.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

Africa is putting its foot down when it comes to the Mercator projection map, the most widely used representation of the ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...