As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and ...

The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.

The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look ...

The assembly approved a resolution favoring the Equal Earth projection, a map that supporters say shows the true size of ...

There are many different methods of portraying a three-dimensional sphere on a two-dimensional surface, and each comes with ...

The UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to drop 500 year old Mercator world maps on September 4 2026. The UN assembly urged ...

Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding ...

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...

France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of ...

Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland, citing it’s large size, was likely influenced by the distorted Mercator map ...

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows true size of all countries - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

The UN has backed a move to replace the widely used Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, which gives a more accurate ...