The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Magical because Santa Claus, known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, and Kris Kringle in English, answers all those questions from little boys and girls, no matter what. Santa has that ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based platforms, mobile apps, desktop software, and embedded systems for our home ...

Bill argues that because clocks start at 12 and maps start at 0°, the entire coordinate system is wrong. Dan explains that latitude and longitude are reference points, not mechanical gears, and that ...

New Zealand's stunning beauty and rich Māori culture are often overlooked on world maps due to its geographic isolation and the limitations of map projections like Mercator. This recurring omission, ...

In school, I was, and still am, excellent in geography and history, but very poor in Arabic grammar and mathematics, and average in the other subjects. The world map has been my passion ever since I ...