Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

We're long overdue for an accurate world map. Get the real story behind different map projections and see which one is the most accurate map of the world. The AuthaGraph is the most accurate world map ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their true proportions, ...

The maps of the world you’ve been looking at all your life are wrong and should be replaced, according to a group promoting a new map that more accurately shows Africa as the second largest continent.

Geraldo Cid of the New York City–based collective Art Code Data has designed a mind-boggling mashup of interconnected transit lines from 214 cities on five continents—a tangle of 791 metro lines and ...

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one ...