Kids from around the world submit hand-drawn maps for International Cartographic Association contest The world seen through a child’s eyes can be beautiful and unexpected. So, it stands to reason that ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Maps are imperfect drawings of our world that distort how we perceive size, distance, and even where things are really located You’ve (probably) never seen the world unless you’ve served a stint on ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

For centuries, the Mercator map has shown the African continent smaller than it actually is. Now the African Union is calling for an end to this distortion, for Equal Earth and a new picture of global ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...