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

The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look larger than their actual relative sizes, and those near the equator look muc ...

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

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

A shrunken Africa, a Greenland and a northern Russia that seem to stretch into infinity: that is about to disappear from the maps used by French diplomacy. Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced ...

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

On the world maps most of us have seen since childhood, Greenland looks almost as big as Africa. But Africa is actually about 14 times larger, and Russia and Canada also appear far bigger than their ...

Despite being developed for navigation, the Mercator projection has remained common in educational materials, media, digital mapping, and other forms of geographic representation. Its continued use ...

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.

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true ...