Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan. It preserves the proportions of continents and oceans ...

He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents and ensure the most accurate map of the world.

and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

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 ...

Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ... nondum cognita” (Unknown Southern Land), a hypothetical continent believed to exist in the southern hemisphere.