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

The resolution, led by Togo and supported by the African Union, was passed by a huge majority of 164 votes to one, with six ...

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

The United Nations will vote Friday to adopt a new map of the world meant to make the countries appear more true to size than ...

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

The U.N. voted to endorse a new world map called "Equal Earth" that more accurately depicts the size of continents.

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.

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

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

The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.

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 ...