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

You can print out and fold the map, so you can have your own hyper proportional paper globe. The thing that makes this map truly innovative is that when you transfer it from a 3D globe to a 2D map ...

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

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses — the byproduct of trying to depict a sphere on a flat ...