The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

The U.N. voted to endorse a new world map called "Equal Earth" that more accurately depicts the size of continents.

Aimed at “a more accurate representation” of continental landmasses, the resolution was supported by 164 countries, while the US voted against it and six other states abstained. The new map – known as ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.

At first glance, the world map seems familiar and unchanging, with its continents neatly in place. But far beneath the waves of the southwestern Pacific, stretching around New Zealand and New ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington. Aimed at "a ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...