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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

The map you're familiar with, that pretty much everyone has a copy of somewhere, is called the Mercator Projection, which was first presented by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion ...

In a perfect world, each map projection would be judged on its own merit and applied to the job that suits it best. But perfect worlds are boring. So why not put two projections in a good ol ...