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It has long been known that many of the most popular maps of the globe are wrong. However, a new graphicshows exactly how wrong the commonly used Mercator map is. It reveals the huge imbalances in ...

You’re going to need some double-sided tape. By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The ...

Maps shape our understanding of the world – and in an increasingly interconnected and global economy, this geographic knowledge is more important than ever. The funny thing is, almost everyone ...

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

Doha: The Louvre Museum in Paris has launched an official investigation into the distortion of the Gulf map at its Abu Dhabi franchise, Qatar's National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) said. A map ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

It sometimes feels like the world is in a state of constant crisis; a global pandemic, conflict between religious ideologies, and two major economic crises in as many decades. It’s no wonder that we ...

India has lodged a protest with Saudi Arabia over the distortion of Indian boundaries in a global map printed behind the country’s new 20 Riyal currency note. The map shows undivided Jammu and Kashmir ...