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

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

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

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

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Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

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

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

Iran’s rial currency has fallen to near-record lows as concerns grow that European nations may reimpose United Nations ...

Africa’s wealth map is being redrawn. Once cast as a continent struggling to shake off economic decline, it is now ...