Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

As you drive around the Mario Kart World map on Free Roam mode, the game allows you to collect certain items, and tick off ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

In a fascinating exposé, a visual campaign reveals that the familiar world map we all grew up with is more illusion than fact ...

The problem was so widespread that a French mathematician even developed an eponymous equation to quantify the degree of distortion that a world map experienced. Called Tissot’s indicatrix, the ...

Not to fear. A geographer has designed an interactive map of the most notable people around the world, including Sean Connery of Edinburgh and Barack Obama from Honolulu. “I made a map of the ...

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels. By Natasha Frost ...

Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human faces with puffed cheeks to indicate wind directions. Initially ...