How WWI got Nat Geo into the map business

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.
Indiatimes

'Racially motivated and unconstitutional': NAACP sues Texas over new congressional map; alleges discriminatory gerrymandering

The NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Texas, accusing the state of deliberately diluting the voting strength of Black and minority ...
The Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...
Metro

How the UK, USA and China could fit into Africa’s redrawn ‘Equal Earth’ map

The most commonly used maps don’t show the true scale of Africa (Picture: Getty) The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African ...
Daily Mail

Africa's plan to redraw 'skewed' world map: 55-nation African Union calls for 'Equal Earth' map to replace those that 'misrepresent continent's true scale'

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...
The Daily Telegraph

Redraw world map ‘to show greatness of Africa’, demand nations

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Campaigners want world map to show Africa really bigger

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...
The Independent

Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Bloomberg L.P.

African Union Backs Campaign to Adopt More Realistic World Map

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s relative size than the one currently adorning most geography-class walls.
Sky

Why African campaign groups want the traditional world map scrapped

The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use of a 16th-century map in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size. The Mercator projection of the world distorts the sizes ...
NDTV

African Union Urges Adoption Of World Map Showing Continent's True Size

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...