Click on “Projecting the World’s Faith” below to begin a slideshow of each graphic in full size. Religion News Service graphics by Tiffany McCallen (RNS) Muslims will overtake Christians by the end of ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This 1854 map of world religion ...

For centuries we have used maps to delineate borders that have been defined by politics. But it may be time to chuck many of our notions about how humanity organizes itself. Across the world a ...

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Like all planets, Earth isn't flat.

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

Way to put the world into perspective. One Reddit user took the time to redesign the world map to represent each country's size according to its population. Take a look. Way to put the world into ...

This is just one map of one small town, but it shows a microcosm of religion in the USA. Carbondale, Illinois is a college town of about 25,000 people with about 70 religious communities, almost all ...

Newsweek has created a map showing the world's most hated countries and the United States comes in second in 2025. The map is based on the World Population Review's research for this year "by ...

Muslims will overtake Christians by the end of this century. India, now mostly Hindu, will become the world’s largest Muslim country. The numbers of people with no religious identity will soar in the ...