(MENAFN- Live Mint) The African Union has joined a growing campaign to challenge centuries of cartographic distortion that has long diminished Africa's true scale on world maps. The bloc of 55 nations ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use of a 16th-century map in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size. The Mercator projection of the world distorts the sizes ...

A map showing how small some countries really are has left people shocked. Reddit users have been surprised by a map showing the real size of countries was posted on the site, in the week after Donald ...

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion, it ...

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

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation. Home to six time zones, its endless plains spread from ocean to ocean, dominating great swathes of the northern half of the globe. But, in reality, ...

Take a look at a map today, and you’re likely to see that North America is larger than Africa, Alaska is larger than Mexico and China is smaller than Greenland. But in reality China is four times ...