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

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World maps distort size and shape by design. Learn why projections matter and how they shape global understanding. (CREDIT: ...

UN has backed a new world map designed to show the relative size of continents more accurately, particularly correcting the ...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to phase out Mercator projections and adopt Equal Earth projections, a change meant to better represent geographic size on maps. The vote came on Sept. 4, ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

Africa Bigger on world maps: Titled "Correct the Map", the resolution was passed with 164 countries voting in favour. The ...

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

Indian diplomat Raghoo Puri noted that equal-area approaches address size distortions from traditional navigation maps. While ...

The 193-member UN General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly adopted the resolution, titled “‘Correct the map’: rebalancing ...

Japan has entered a fresh dispute over the world map adopted by the United Nations after objecting to how the disputed Kuril ...