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 ...

According to that new article, this new world map is not only the most accurate ever created, but it actually showcases the proper size of the landmasses and continents that make up our planet.

This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere. The Robinson isn’t as extreme, however, taking the form of a ...

Slide 1 of 4, A Mercator map projection.It is 2D. Some of the continents are smaller or bigger than on a globe., Mercator map projection The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation ...

Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan.It preserves the ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

What is the world’s most populous city?: Top 10 most populous cities in the world, US ranked. What is the smallest continent? Located in Earth’s southern hemisphere, Australia is the smallest ...

The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way—"surrounded on all sides by the ocean," in the words of an accompanying book—and named the continent for the ...

"It's huge, beautiful, fantastically crafted," said historian Pieralvise Zorzi. Beyond the outlines of countries and continents, Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi is a magnificent golden and blue painting ...

As it disintegrated, the world's smallest, thinnest and youngest continent struck out on its own, while the regions of Gondwana that had once laid directly to its north west and south west became ...