The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

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 ...

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

The Scrambled Continents map pack for Civilization 5 has been released. It includes real geographic locations with special scripts that produce randomized interiors each time a new game begins ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Scientists studying the lost continent of Zealandia have produced a series of detailed maps that show the continent sitting beneath the ocean surface. Zealandia is a huge underwater landmass ...

The maps, which can be accessed through a new interactive website, reveal the lost eighth continent’s tectonic profile, along with the shape and depth of the ocean floor surrounding it.

After hundreds of years of speculation, scientists have finally mapped out Earth's "lost" eighth continent, Zealandia.

These 7 realms reveal how life itself draws the map.