A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas. This ever-evolving map allows people to create art using a limited number of pixels over time.

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...

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

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

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

While open-world games aren’t the be-all and end-all of modern triple-A video games anymore, there’s still something great about a massive world that you can explore to your heart’s content, full of ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.