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

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 ...

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

<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 ...

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.