The U.S. ranks 18 on a map compiled by Newsweek with data showing the best and worst Organization for Economic cooperation ...

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

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

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

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

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

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

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

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions depicted on maps communicate social meaning. They subtly but powerfully educate ...

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 ...

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

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has ...