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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

On the world maps most of us have seen since childhood, Greenland looks almost as big as Africa. But Africa is actually about 14 times larger, and Russia and Canada also appear far bigger than their ...

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' ...