The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look ...

The UN’s ‘Correct the Map’ resolution backs equal-area projections like Equal Earth. Here’s why India and South Asia appear larger than on Mercator maps.

NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth June 29 that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly backed a new Equal Earth world map that corrects Africa’s ...

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

India voted in favour of the map, while explaining that the vote stressed on “the underlying principle of promoting equal - area cartographic representation.” ...

The Equal Earth map, developed in 2018, depicts Crimea in a lighter shade, separate from russia. The resolution on the map was initiated by Togo and supported by the African Union; Ukraine abstained ...

The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth's land surface is being created with ESA's Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover map to a resolution ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted 164-1 on September 4, 2026, to adopt the Equal Earth map projection as the official UN-backed world map, marking a significant shift toward representing ...

The world map most of us have grown up seeing may not show the world as it really is. The United Nations has backed a move to replace the widely used Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, ...