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

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

Officials within Marco Rubio's State Department caused major embarrassment after using a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent. The ...

The common Mercator projection map distorts the size of continents, making Africa appear much smaller than it is. The United Nations General Assembly voted to encourage the use of maps that more ...

The United Nations has backed a move away from the familiar Mercator world map in favour of a projection that shows countries closer to their true relative sizes. The UN General Assembly adopted the ...

United States officials attending a major health conference in Brazil mislabeled the African countries they showed on a map, causing an online stir and a subsequent ...

The Trump administration is being criticized after the U.S. Department of State presented a laughably incorrect map of Africa at a major international conference. The blunder, in which every country ...