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 ...

Two decades ago, Google co-founder Larry Page had an idea that would forever change the way we navigate the world. "Larry drove down some of these streets with a video camera and handed it to someone ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...

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

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...