All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new campaign is ...

DAKAR, Senegal, 7 April 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/- For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world maps—has ...

Most North Americans perceive our place on the planet through historical projections that place North America in the centre, Europe on the right, and Asia on the left. These maps give the impression ...

The National Maritime Museum’s large glass-covered central court is to reopen in June, just over a year after it closed for ...

and navigated new and difficult terrain, such as mapping the mass shootings of Jews in Eastern Europe by Nazi death squads during World War ... Amazon on a Mercator projection map that made ...

THESE DAYS MAP-MAKERS are rarely the objects ... and if his view of the world did not conform to that of the Catholic Church, he could be in mortal danger. Gerard Mercator is not generally remembered ...

Here Technologies, the world's leading digital map provider, is adapting its 40-year old service for a new age.

A new global analysis finds that many of the world's most threatened seagrass meadows lie within designated Marine Protected ...

arguing it failed to fully block Iran's path to becoming the world's 10th confirmed nuclear weapons state. Today, there are an estimated 12,330 nuclear warheads globally, with Russia and the U.S ...

The platform now features a world map interface that lets subscribers find those routes spread across the world. At this current stage of Route Creator’s roll-out, your routes won’t suddenly ...