An analysis of four prominent maps, including the one Google, Apple, and Bing use--but shouldn't.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the record straight.

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

The world is a lot less stable than the clean, unchanging lines on a world map would suggest. All over the planet there are borders countries cannot agree upon and territories that more than one ...

Traditional 2-D maps of Earth are highly distorted, but this award-winning design makes a world of difference.

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An analysis of four prominent maps, including the one Google, Apple, and Bing use--but shouldn't.