Democracy is under threat globally and the U.S. is accelerating the decline, according to an institute backed by the ...

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.

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 ...

<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 ...

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

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.

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

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