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

Countries from Kazakhstan to Indonesia have strengthened border checks as officials monitor concerns over a lab worker's ...

A new map has revealed the most dangerous places in the world.

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

Google and Apple have renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America on their digital maps, following an order from President Donald Trump.

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...

In the past three years, following the October 7 attacks and the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the wider region has been marked by conflict, economic turmoil, and a shattering of the ...

Japan has become the first nation to top 100,000 centenarians, highlighting longevity but also aging-population challenges.

But while the physical geography of our world can be set in stone, the reality is that maps are not. There are choices involved in everything from which countries are centered to ...

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...