The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

If you open Google Maps, you’ll notice that Greenland looks like it’s about the same size as Africa. However, the African ...

The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows true size of all countries - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and tech firms to move away from the centuries-old Mercator projection ...

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Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ring that ...