Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credits: Unsplash Pop open a blank world map and ask the average person to point to a handful of countries that make ...

The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents such as Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the ...