Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

Maps are supposed to show us the truth. But here’s the thing — every map you’ve ever seen is, in some way, a lie. The moment you try to flatten a three-dimensional sphere onto a two-dimensional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...

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The Youtube channel of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center posted an animated map showing every recorded earthquake and tsunami in sequence as they occurred from January 1, 1901, through December 31, ...

The Mercator projection, left, distorts the relative size of landmasses, particularly towards the poles. The Equal Earth ...

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

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