Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that ...

An 1805 European map depicting the mythical Mountains of Kong range. It is a fair question. The initiative brought attention ...

The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

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

Mr. Poplak is a South African journalist and filmmaker. The world is getting a new map, and it’s all Africa’s fault. In early September, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...