Their design was inspired by the Robinson projection map from 1963 which even got the seal of approval from the National Geographic Society when they named it their map of choice in 1988 ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...