The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with ...

A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of a map that better reflects actual continental sizes, especially Africa. A ...

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, ...

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display ...

The process of converting a three-dimensional(3D) spherical globe into a two-dimensional(2D) flat surface creates a problem for the cartographer. A trade-off is required between the accuracy of ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

The map you might have been learning from your whole life may have given you a pretty inaccurate understanding of the relative sizes of Earth's landmasses. On September 4, 2026, the United Nations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shrunken Africa, a Greenland and a northern Russia that seem to stretch into infinity: that is about to disappear from the maps ...

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 ...