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 most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look ...

The UN resolution instead endorses use of the Equal Earth projection, which better shows the relative sizes of land masses.

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows true size of all countries - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.

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

Why the UN’s new world map has upset some countries - India, Japan and Ukraine protest Equal Earth map of world due to ...

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

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...