For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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.

"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.

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

A striking new map from The World in Maps places the continents side by side by their median age, the age at which half the population is younger and half older. According to the graphic sourced from ...

Americans have been warned against travelling to certain parts of Africa, with a string of updated advisories issued by the U.S. State Department in recent weeks. Meanwhile, many other countries on ...