A United Nations (U.N.) vote encouraging the use of world maps that more accurately depict the size of continents has renewed debate over how Africa’s geographic scale is perceived. The U.N. General ...

Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we’re taught that the world is made up of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...