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 ...

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 ...

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.

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

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?

Instead of the traditional Mercator map of the earth that we've grown used to, authorities are introducing the Gall-Peters-style map to students to better display authentic sizes of the continents.

The map is listed on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register and described as ‘the only complete example of a large medieval world map intended for public display’. In many ways, it serves as ...

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 ...