For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

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

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

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

The African Union (AU) has endorsed a campaign for the worldwide adoption of the ‘correct’ map of the continent that ...

Thanks to this type of world creation, Bethesda was able to make a truly enormous map. It is the second-largest game from Bethesda in terms of overall map size, and exploring all of the areas ...

A view shows the city of Nuuk, Greenland, February 9, 2025. Greenland is still pretty big. Depending on how you define its political status, it's around the 12th largest nation in the world.

New maps released this week document the world’s largest land mammal migration, revealing the seasonal journeys of more than 5 million white-eared kob and tiang antelope across South Sudan and ...