Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

New data reveals the countries with the highest government restrictions on religion and where they are rising.

The world’s fattest countries have been revealed in a new interactive map. The map, published by Our World in Data, uses data compiled from figures from 195 countries around the world and shows the ...

This quiz will challenge everything you thought you knew about geography. From individual countries to continents and the whole world, you’ll face 34 maps – each flipped, rotated, or turned upside ...

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...