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

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

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

The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately reflects the true size of Africa.

This animated map shows 120 years of earthquakes and tsunami data.

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels. By Natasha Frost ...