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

It makes Africa bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding van Togo met steun van de Afrikaanse Unie bij de VN.

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

The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage alternatives to the centuries-old Mercator projection, which dramatically distorts the relative size of Africa.

The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed a resolution calling for a more accurate representation of the world’s continents, potentially changing the way the world map is presented in schools, ...

If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...

Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why. If you were to arrive in our solar system never ...

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The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The U.S. was the only country to vote against the resolution, accusing the UN of seeking to use the new map to promote ‘reparations and cognitive justice’ Author of the article: The United Nations ...

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 ...