The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017. A ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...

Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting continents that have long since disappeared. These maps, coupled with modern ...

EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary ...

Cartographers have unveiled a new map of the world which shows the size of the continents more accurately. The new projection is called Equal Earth and is designed to represent the relative sizes of ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT’S been revealed that the world map we’ve used for centuries doesn’t actually ...

Geraldo Cid of the New York City–based collective Art Code Data has designed a mind-boggling mashup of interconnected transit lines from 214 cities on five continents—a tangle of 791 metro lines and ...

EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary ...