Imagine drawing a world map on an orange, peeling the skin to leave a single piece and then flattening it. It would, of course, rip. But imagine you could stretch it. As you did so, the map drawn ...

If you once failed geography class, have no fear -- because the world map you were studying wasn't even accurate. Don't freak out, though: The world is still round and there are still seven ...

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., declared on CNN Monday that the average middle American probably has no idea where Greenland is on a world map. Appearing on CNN’s "Inside Politics," Coons made the ...

The world maps that have hung on school walls in Boston and around the country portray North America as larger than Africa ... middle, and high school classrooms received new 24-by-36-inch ...

Take a look at 12 below, which include the first to use the name “America” and the first map printed in the new world. And please, add any we’ve missed in the comments.

Boston, which is the first city in the nation to phase out Mercator Projection maps, introduced the Gall-Peters Projection map to one grade level in 600 elementary, middle and high schools, and ...

A version of a 500-year-old world map that was the first to mention the name "America" has been discovered in a German university library. Experts did not even know about the existence of a fifth ...

A centuries-old copy of a 500-year-old map that christened the New World as “America” has been discovered at a university in Germany.