A new world map projection created by a Japanese designer is unlike any that have come before it, and for his efforts, he has won a prestigious international design prize. Despite its attempt to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most ...

This may just be the most accurate map of Earth that you've ever seen. It won't look familiar, though. Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa has divided the world into nearly 100 triangles to form this ...

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

You’re probably fairly familiar with the map of the world with Britain in the middle, a massive Greenland and smaller sub-continent. You’re probably also aware that the map, that was introduced in ...