Africa’s misrepresentation on world maps is not just a cartographic error—it’s a narrative issue,” said Moky Makura, Executive Director of Africa No Filter.

The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth ...

Greenland appears to be enormous, spanning more space than Australia on the map, and at least rivaling Africa in size. It's actually 3.5 times smaller than Australia, though, and 14 times smaller ...

A video showing the true size of Russia compared to Africa has gone viral on TikTok as social media users learn about the misrepresentation of scale on many world maps. First posted in late ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.

This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere. The Robinson isn’t as extreme, however, taking the form of a ...

In the last 500 years, a certain kind of map has been used to teach children about our planet. But public schools in Boston have made a big change — and it might alter the way you think about the ...

How the world would look if it were measured by its wealth, 2015. Using data from the World Bank Development Indicators, this map from Global Finance shows us what the world will look like in 2015 if ...

Boston School Maps Depict Africa Bigger than North America. ... Mercator's incorrectly placed equator means that Germany, which should in the the north, is placed dead center on the world map.

Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...