A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

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 new map, known as the Equal Earth cartographic projection, is designed to provide a more accurate representation of the world's land masses, according to the resolution. A new and more realistic ...

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 ...

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...

Robert Dussey, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Togo, introduces the "Correct the map" draft resolution. Africa is much larger than it appears on many familiar world maps. That is because the maps we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

The world map most of us have grown up seeing may not show the world as it really is. The United Nations has backed a move to replace the widely used Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it's not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

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 ...