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

Earlier this month, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt Equal Earth maps and to phase out the distortions of the widely used Mercator Projection.

The UN is in favour of changing the traditional world map to one that shows Africa occupying rather more space than it ...

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 ...