A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

In Power Lines, journalist Peter Keating brings together nearly 100 political maps, tracing how cartography has shaped ...

Why is there a straight-line border that looks like it was drawn with a ruler for over 1,000 kilometers in the middle of the desert?When you think of borders, you naturally assume they wind along ...

Zoom in far enough on any map and the world stops looking so orderly. A sliver of Michigan is completely surrounded by Ohio, a country tucked inside another country that’s tucked inside a third, and a ...

When I was in elementary school, looking at countries around the world in an atlas, I wondered why some of the borders in Africa were straight lines. Later, I learned that those straight borders were ...

The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...

This alternate history short explores a fascinating geopolitical scenario where the United States and China completely swap ...