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 first round started with a 63 piece puzzle of an Africa map which the pupils had to compete in pairs in 10 minutes or less.

Maths and physics virtuoso Wandile Mabanga has launched Map Blitz, a puzzle game for teams.

Africa is much bigger than you think. Here’s how you’ve been misled A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame ...

By Robert D. Kaplan and Mark Schroeder There is a new scramble for Africa. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built or envisioned into the interior of central Africa from multiple directions ...

A new map of nearly all of Africa shows exactly where the continent's 1.3 billion people live down to the meter, which could help everyone from local governments to aid organizations. The map ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world, in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.

Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From the moment Gerardus Mercator shrank Africa on paper, the continent ...