It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world ... map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.

Maps are all imperfect because they portray the globe in just two dimensions ... When you consider square mileage though, a whole new world appears. Inspired by this map of Africa's true size ...

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the ... regions to be shaped as they are on a globe, or sized as they are on a globe?

Maps are flat representations of our spherical planet. I cut open a plastic globe to understand just what it takes to turn a sphere into something ... Understand the world with a daily explainer ...

Our maps have been lying to us for centuries ... designers figured out how to translate our spherical world into a rectangular box. Hajime Narukawa, a Tokyo-based architect and artist, broke the globe ...

His algorithms divide the globe’s surface into small polygons that are unfolded into a flat map, just as a cube can be unfolded into six squares. Cartographers have tried this trick before ...

The first known world map was inscribed ... point of orientation.) Maps became political tools as the Spanish and Portuguese empires divvied up the globe into separate halves “in one of the ...

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504 ... Hessler described two types of people in the rare-book and map world: those who get overly excited at any new finding ...

A globe is a model of the Earth and shows what it looks like from space. Some globes show how the land is divided into different ... maps can look different because the world is actually curved.