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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The new ‘true-scale’ map shrinks Europe and North America while enlarging Africa – and depicts the disputed Kuril islands as ruled by Moscow ...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to endorse a new world map that shows Africa's large size more accurately.