African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Traditional 2-D maps of Earth are highly distorted, but this award-winning design makes a world of difference.

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