If you open Google Maps, you’ll notice that Greenland looks like it’s about the same size as Africa. However, the African ...

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world.

Africa has long been represented as smaller than its real size in maps, which are largely based on an ancient projection.

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true ...

The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.

The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while ...

The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.

The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday calling for world maps to more accurately reflect the ...