Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that has prompted a new African initiative, “Correct the Map,” calling for depictions that show Africa’s true scale. “For ...

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

Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.

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Every year, tons of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs flow around the world, an underground river that ...

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First there was Letsile Tebogo, who put Botswana on the sporting map when he won gold in the 200m at the Paris Olympics. Now, there is Gaborone United Ladies, who became the country’s first football ...