A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas. This ever-evolving map ...

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

The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more ...

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

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

This whimsical map, which is a modern-day nod to Nieuwenhuys’ ideal of borderless living, considers what it might look like if the boundaries of the world dissolved and all the subway systems of ...