African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

Read Story Transcript An extremely rare and massive 16th-century map has been been fully assembled and digitized for the first time ever. "It's the largest map of the world made during the ...

The plan was to draw and paint a huge world map — big enough to achieve a place in the Guinness Book of Records. On Nov. 14, 1988, with approval from the city, Jones' 38 students began laying ...

There are, as everyone knows, a lot of people in China; around 1.35 billion of them, or roughly 20 percent of the world's population, live within the country's borders.