Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

In a fascinating exposé, a visual campaign reveals that the familiar world map we all grew up with is more illusion than fact ...

There was, of course, much to map in Africa, too, but that mattered less to the cartographers up north ... are being introduced around the world too. In the US and Germany, for example, maps ...

When she's not galavanting around New York's restaurant and wine scene, she's likely catching shows of up ... map of the world that show North America and Europe much smaller than Africa and ...

An incredible map ... US and Brazil make up the top five. The graphic also demonstrates how easily the whole of Europe would fit into Africa, as well as some of the biggest nations in the world ...

Every journey starts with a map. But if you set off on the wrong foot, misdirection can become misadventure. It’s easy to get lost. The hard part is making sure nobody else follows in your footsteps.

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows ... greatly distorts the relative areas of land masses. It makes Africa look tiny, and Greenland and Russia appear huge.