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

There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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 ...