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

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

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

Most maps we see in our everyday lives are based on the Mercator projection, which was created in the 1500s.

A cartogram posted on Reddit shows what the world looks like if you scale countries by their population. Watch out China! India is catching up with you.