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 ...

Maps are everywhere. From the navigation apps on our phones to the world map hanging in classrooms, we encounter cartographic representations daily without giving them much thought. But beneath these ...

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 ...