The vast majority of open-world games feature a single seamless environment that players can explore at their own pace. More often than not, such vast open-world maps also include various regions or ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

An early 20th century world map using the Mercator projection, which critics say exaggerates the size of regions near the poles like Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. African ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south, ...

In many cases, the reasons behind such separations are pretty obvious: explorable regions may be aligned with real-world geography, sending players to various countries or even continents for story ...