The United Nations General Assembly has backed an African Union-led effort to change how the world is represented on maps, adopting a resolution calling for more accurate and equitable cartographic ...

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Equal Earth projection accurately reflects countries' relative sizes. - Equal Earth The United Nations General Assembly voted ...

Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland. Brazil is five times bigger than Alaska. Canada and China are roughly the same size. But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely ...