IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't actually accurately illustrate the globe's countries and continents. When this world map was charted in the 1600s, according ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth ...

The New World Order: A Map. Published Sep 26, 2010 at 7:00 AM EDT Updated Sep 28, ... Italy is vying with Japan to be the country with the world's oldest population. 4. City-States.

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014 ...

"Every world map is distorted in some respect," Matthew Edney, a professor of geography and the history of cartography at the University of Southern Maine, told Live Science in an email. You may like ...