The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is.

A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

Australia is set to look noticeably larger on world maps after the United Nations General Assembly voted to ditch centuries of cartographic distortion in favour of a new global map projection.

African countries must collectively push for the use of the Equal Earth Projection, which is an equal-area, pseudocylindrical world map created in 2018 by cartographers, Bojan Savric, Bernhard Jenny ...

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.

Every flat map sacrifices some geographical properties. Equal Earth preserves relative land area, while Mercator's navigational advantages come with increasingly severe area distortion towards the ...

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

For generations, the world map many of us grew up looking at has shaped how we imagine the size of countries and continents. But there is a problem: the familiar Mercator projection does not ...

This is the Mercator Projection; it's the world map most humans have been using for quite a while. It was first drawn up by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the ...