Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

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

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

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