The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

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

Asia, the world’s largest continent, is often divided into six distinct regions to better understand its vast geography, ...

If this holds true, the conventional definition of what counts as a continent might need a rewrite. The map of Earth, long thought settled, could be far more dynamic than once imagined.

As it disintegrated, the world's smallest, thinnest and youngest continent struck out on its own, while the regions of Gondwana that had once laid directly to its north west and south west became ...