Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screen shows a US government map of Africa with mislabeled countries during a State Department presentation at a global ...

A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

Officials within Marco Rubio's State Department caused major embarrassment after using a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent. The ...

The common Mercator projection map distorts the size of continents, making Africa appear much smaller than it is. The United Nations General Assembly voted to encourage the use of maps that more ...

Officials within Marco Rubio’s State Department caused major embarrassment after using a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent. The ...

Attendees at AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, in Brazil were left confused after a map of Africa displayed by the U.S. Department of State incorrectly labeled six countries by size, ...

It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.