The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

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 ...

THE problem of reducing the sphere to a plane surface has ever been a difficulty. This realisation has led cartographers to adopt the policy of constructing a map for a specific purpose. The most ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

IT is very satisfactory to find that at the present time care is being taken that the principles of map projection are being studied as soon as the use of maps is seriously undertaken. At one time ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.