The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

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 ...

The African Union has officially called on international organizations to adopt a mapping projection that more accurately reflects the true size of the African continent. One of the most commonly used ...

Creating a map of the world presents a fundamental problem – how to turn the three-dimensional sphere of the Earth into a flat, two-dimensional image. In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

Coronavirus cases and deaths as of 11:54 a.m. Friday. This thematic map type is appropriate for this presentation because it does not systematically distort area. Perspective by David Policansky We ...

How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking demonstration of ...