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

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

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 centuries-old wrong ...

How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.

If you open Google Maps, you’ll notice that Greenland looks like it’s about the same size as Africa. However, the African ...

Africa has long been represented as smaller than its real size in maps, which are largely based on an ancient projection.

Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding van Togo met steun van de Afrikaanse Unie bij de VN.

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 ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The UN General Assembly voted to back the Equal Earth cartographic projection in a bid to provide what it described as a 'more accurate representation' of the world's land masses.

Before reading this articleThis article is a significantly expanded version of the 'Weekly Geography Behind the Scenes' ...