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.

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...

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

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, ...

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 ...

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.

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows true size of all countries - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

The countries are not opposed to a new map per se; they’re testy about the colour shades.