Lula da Silva defended the map, stating, “The Earth is round. Our perspective matters.” Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world ...

(American-centred maps are also in use, but these have the unfortunate consequence of partitioning Asia to either side of the map.) Our meridian-centred view of the world shapes how we refer to ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small) countries ...

Here now to provide a some perspective on the matter of mortality is a variegated patchwork comprising 188 of the world’s countries, with each nation color-coded in accordance with the average ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses — the byproduct of trying to depict a sphere on a flat ...

The result is that Europe (although also Africa) is in the centre of the conventional world map - a rather colonial perspective. Advertisement. ... (American-centred maps are also in use, ...