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

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

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...

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

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...

(CNN) — The United Nations General Assembly is voting Friday on whether to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a ...

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...