Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world.

The answer can differ strikingly from one world map to another. The question has taken on new weight since Sept 4, when the ...

Africa has long been represented as smaller than its real size in maps, which are largely based on an ancient projection.

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’s vote to promote more accurate map projections is symbolically important—but it will not return land, build ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday calling for world maps to more accurately reflect the ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while ...

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

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

The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S.

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

The Mercator map that is now most familiar distorts the size of Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania and inflates ...