Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

But the size, shape, and distance of all the continents and oceans on a rectangular world map are actually distorted by design. These distortions affect the way we view geography, culture, and the ...

When people look at a world map on a classroom wall or on their phone, one of the first things they notice is how huge Greenland looks. On many common maps, Greenland appears to be nearly as large as ...

Togo officials argue that current widely used projections are geographically deceptive and minimize the continent's global ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the ...

The problem is not that accurate maps do not exist. The issue is that Western institutions have been slow to adopt them.

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

Togo is spearheading a diplomatic movement to overhaul how the world views the African continent. The West African nation ...

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 ...