Boston schools ditch conventional world maps in favor of this one By Akilah Johnson Globe Staff,March 16, 2017, 8:59 p.m.

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. You may think you have a pretty good idea of the world map, but Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explains how special ...

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

Google Maps has a new 3D globe mode. Just zoom out on the desktop version of Google Maps and you'll be presented with a sphere instead of a plane visual representation of the Earth.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A new interactive map highlights the most notable people to hail from cities and nations around the globe, from Afghanistan to Zanzibar. “Did you know Freddie Mercury was ...

These Beautiful Maps Capture the Rivers That Pulse Through Our World Cartographer Robert Szucs creates colorful maps of the watersheds that creep across states, countries, continents and the globe ...

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.

A Belgian map collector has discovered what he claims is the oldest globe depicting the New World—but some are skeptical.

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...