As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and ...

THE United Nations has passed a resolution to adopt a new world map with a more accurate represent of continent sizes. The ...

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

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, ...

A NEW world map has officially been adopted after a UN vote – with the fresh model reducing the size of Britain and the US ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt a new map that more accurately depicts Africa's size. The U.S. was the ...

The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a new world map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions.

Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding ...

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

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

The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.