The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Cartographers are frequently commissioned to update world maps to reflect changes to names and borders. But the changes don't always find quick acceptance. For example, cartographers changed ...

Christie's auction house says it has discovered a previously unknown copy of the first map to name America, and the 510-year-old manuscript will be for sale next month.

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

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map.

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