What Rankin finds is that one part of the globe is especially human-centric. The numbers on the map below show what proportion of humanity lives in the half of the world centered on that point.

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the ... regions to be shaped as they are on a globe, or sized as they are on a globe?

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world ... map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.

By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen ... “This does violence to the globe,” Dr. Gott said. His new kind of double-sided map, crafted with Dr. Goldberg and Robert Vanderbei ...

You will notice that the half circle has become a sphere. That is where the world map will fit, and it will look like a globe. Click the word None or the drop-down arrow beside it. You will see a ...

You may think you have a pretty good idea of the world map ... The hidden globe is a kind of transfiguration of this map, an accretion of cracks and concessions, suspensions and abstractions ...

A year later, the world tallied its first 100 million cases. It took the globe just 7 more months to ... nations collectively account for almost half of all recorded infections so far in the ...

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation. Home to six time zones, its endless plains spread from ocean to ocean, dominating great swathes of the northern half of the globe. But, in reality ...

We can’t bring [our globes] out for readers to look at because they are so fragile, so they are the hidden world maps and hidden star charts of the collection.” Imaging specialists at the ...