This video reconstructs Pangaea, the massive supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago, showing how today’s continents once fit together. It explains how plate tectonics shaped the ...

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

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 ...

France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of a map that better reflects actual continental sizes, especially Africa.

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...