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

The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with ...

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...

On the second day in Tokyo, I visited the Toyo Bunko Museum, a place I have long wanted to see. They are currently holding a ...

How a society records the world, depicting its known boundaries and contents, says a lot about belief systems, science, and more. For example, the ancient Hereford Mappa Mundi was drawn in 1300 and ...

The Earth has no top or bottomPlease picture a world map.Russia and Canada are at the top, while Australia and Antarctica are ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The United Nations this month overwhelmingly approved a resolution ...