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 ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

Officials appealed to the public for help in finding the person who shot the right-wing political activist. The F.B.I.

That’s Fort Ross State Historic Park in a nutshell – California’s Russian plot twist sitting pretty on the Sonoma Coast. You might think you know California history – the Spanish missions, the Gold ...

The daytime charm of this 19th-century burial ground—with its quirky epitaphs and tropical foliage—gives way to something more primeval as night approaches, when centuries of island history seem to ...

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

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

New analysis of street-level data across sub-Saharan Africa shows how access to infrastructure dramatically improves the ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s relative size than the one currently adorning most geography-class walls.

A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas. This ever-evolving map allows people to create art using a limited number of pixels over time.