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

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based platforms, mobile apps, desktop software, and embedded systems for our home ...

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 ...

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

The United Nations, which is a group that brings together lots of countries from around the world, has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of ...