World Map Shows Top Conflict Hot Spots in 2026

Instability from Latin America to the Middle East risks spreading as conflicts, proxies, and shifting alliances shape 2026.

Map Shows Where Billionaires Are Planning Private Cities Around the World

Billionaires are planning their own for-profit private cities across the world, from Forest City in Malaysia to Prospera in ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Civilization 7 update 1.3.1 drops today, rolling out a new island-filled map and knocking Egypt off the top of the pyramid

This month's Civ 7 update, 1.3.1, will rock up today, December 9th. Following on from the beefy 1.3.0 update, which added in ...
The Conversation

Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world

Doug Specht does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
The Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...
The Middletown Press

Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in ...
Bloomberg L.P.

African Union Backs Campaign to Adopt More Realistic World Map

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s relative size than the one currently adorning most geography-class walls.
CNN

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...
Reuters

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...
The Verge

This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

WPlace’s popularity appears to be melting its servers. WPlace’s popularity appears to be melting its servers. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess ...
AOL

50 Fun And Surprisingly Insightful Maps Shared By ‘Amazing Maps’

The real world is very complex, unlike what you see in movies and on TV. Our planet, with its varied cultures and societies, is not unlike a giant, cosmic onion. There are lots of different layers of ...