In June, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, speaking from the International Space Station, noted that India looked "much larger" from space than on standard maps. This very phenomenon, where tropical ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...