Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

Maps are to open worlds what the buns are to a hamburger: the element that's taken for granted but holds the whole thing ...

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...

Do you think you know the world? Let’s turn it upside down! We usually see countries the right way up - but not this time. In ...