Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

We often think of a map as a realistic representation of the world, but it is actually quite the opposite: a neat and idealistic drawing of borders in what are often messy places with no visible ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Do you know how big Africa really is? According to experts, most of us don’t, and it’s because the maps we grew up with weren’t telling the full story. Earlier this month, the African Union endorsed a ...

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of the continent and its size. Mercator projection Equal Earth projection ...

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation. Home to six time zones, its endless plains spread from ocean to ocean, dominating great swathes of the northern half of the globe. But, in reality, ...

Google Earth came into existence in 2005. A year later, it experienced a revolutionary tremor. A Palestinian man from Jenin, Thameen Darby, created the Nakba Layer, mapping Palestinian villages that ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Africa may be set to transform itself from a relative clean-energy laggard into a power-sector pioneer. African power firms have plans to dramatically expand ...