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

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

Why the UN’s new world map has upset some countries - India, Japan and Ukraine protest Equal Earth map of world due to ...

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

Two decades ago, Google co-founder Larry Page had an idea that would forever change the way we navigate the world. "Larry drove down some of these streets with a video camera and handed it to someone ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...

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The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is. By John Yoon The United Nations General Assembly on ...

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 ...

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 ...