Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are, while others ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

<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 ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that the U.S. is "the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting." ...

Millions visit South Korea each year, a tech-friendly tourist haven. There’s just one problem: Google Maps doesn’t work there ...