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

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, ...

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

UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.

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

The UN General Assembly has adopted the Equal Earth projection to replace the 400-year-old Mercator map, pushing to correct a centuries-old cartographic distortion that severely shrinks the African ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

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