Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...

Rakshit Sharma For most people, the first encounter with the wider world does not come through travel, diplomacy or even news ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...