When researching manifold theory, one often encounters explanations like "Let's cut and paste charts in our heads to create ...

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with ...

The UN General Assembly is considering a proposal to promote the Equal Earth projection, which shows the true size of ...

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display ...

The United Nations General Assembly recently voted to endorse the Equal Earth projection map. Utah State University geography ...

Look at a conventional Mercator world map, and Greenland can appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger. That striking mismatch is at the heart of a renewed ...

The process of converting a three-dimensional(3D) spherical globe into a two-dimensional(2D) flat surface creates a problem for the cartographer. A trade-off is required between the accuracy of ...

The Mercator map makes Africa look smaller than it is, as a push for more accurate maps asks us to rethink how we see the ...

The UN has endorsed the Equal Earth Projection, a new map that makes Australia bigger and the US smaller. Here's what that ...

France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of a map that better reflects actual continental sizes, especially Africa. A ...

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...