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

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Equal Earth projection accurately reflects countries' relative sizes. - Equal Earth The United Nations General Assembly voted ...

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

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 General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by ...

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 ...