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 ...

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 ...

A world map is one of the most familiar images in modern life, but no flat world map can show the Earth exactly as it is. The reason is mathematical: Earth is approximately spherical, while 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A world map familiar to generations of students could lose ground under an African-led effort to represent countries and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map projection aimed at showing the relative size of the world's continents more accurately, giving Africa greater visual ...