Lula da Silva defended the map, stating, “The Earth is round. Our perspective matters.” Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world ...

An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past. In a study released in the International ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that. Cartographers presented this solution in a new article published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. According to that ...

And yet here, in a book published in 1507, were references to a large world map that showed a new, fourth part of the world and called it America. The references were tantalizing, but for those ...

Abigail Varney for The New York Times Illustrated maps like Mr. Thomas’s are powerful in part because they mimic how the human brain perceives the world, said John Roman, an artist-cartographer ...