The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

Countries across the world are suspending parcel shipments to the U.S. over uncertainty over the Trump administration's ...

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

The U.S. ranks 18 on a map compiled by Newsweek with data showing the best and worst Organization for Economic cooperation and Development countries for taxes. Estonia was first, Latvia second and New ...

Smallest country in Europe is Vatican City, a tiny sovereign state in Rome. Check out a list of other small European ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world, in favour of one that ...

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

After traveling to every country, Gina Morello became more open minded and discovered what she truly values in life. She ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

The 55-nation alliance wants the world to adopt a new map that shows the relative size of the continents more accurately.