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

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

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 Mercator map, which most of us grew up with, makes Africa look smaller and Greenland much larger than they are-but that's ...

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

Last week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows ...

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

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 General Assembly on Friday voted to shift away from the 16th-century Mercator map, designed by Flemish cartographer ...

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

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. 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, ...