Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world, challenging traditional Eurocentric perspectives. Released by the Brazilian Institute of ...

If you want to create a world yourself, on the World Map Builder top page, click 'Sign up' to create an account. Enter your name, email address, password and password (for confirmation) from the ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in ...

A 60 sheet manuscript world map made in 1587 by Urbano Monte has been acquired by the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries, which scanned the sheets, then digitally stitched them together.