Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text.

You’ve probably seen it a thousand times: a map on the wall, north at the top, south down below. It feels so natural that we ...

My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...

For centuries, explorers set sail toward lands that never existed, climbed mountains that were never there, and searched for ...

New Zealand's stunning beauty and rich Māori culture are often overlooked on world maps due to its geographic isolation and the limitations of map projections like Mercator. This recurring omission, ...

In school, I was, and still am, excellent in geography and history, but very poor in Arabic grammar and mathematics, and average in the other subjects. The world map has been my passion ever since I ...

For generations, schools, media outlets and decision-makers have relied on a familiar world map. It has become a global standard, seen everywhere from classroom posters to government buildings. But ...

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. It is a distortion that ...

The maps of the world you’ve been looking at all your life are wrong and should be replaced, according to a group promoting a new map that more accurately shows Africa as the second largest continent.

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a change-the-map campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, they ...