Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Africa is roughly three times as large as Europe, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the world’s most popular map, the 16th-century Mercator map. Last week, the African Union, a ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Here’s how you’ve been misled - A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame ...

Almost every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline over the past few decades, but one region's birth rates are still so high that it is expected to provide more than half the global ...