Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

“Maps are facts, but they can also be arguments — and Trump recognises that,” said Cheshire. He suggested that Trump’s love ...

Creating a map of the world presents a fundamental problem – how to turn the three-dimensional sphere of the Earth into a flat, two-dimensional image. In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

Take a look at a world map and you’re likely to think that North America and Russia are both larger than Africa. But in reality Africa is three times bigger than North America and significantly larger ...

It has long been known that many of the most popular maps of the globe are wrong. However, a new graphicshows exactly how wrong the commonly used Mercator map is. It reveals the huge imbalances in ...

Is Greenland really as big as it seems? Find out more about its true size with five maps that might change your ...