Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

New Delhi: Member states of the African Union, on 15 August, signed a petition for the world to ‘reject’ the Mercator map projection and accept a more equitable projection that “more accurately ...

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, Greenland is about 14 times smaller than Africa.

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Maps have been a crucial part of human history for thousands of years, serving as indispensable tools in our daily lives. The earliest known map dates back to 600 BC, etched onto clay tablets, while ...