The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.
Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...
The UN resolution instead endorses use of the Equal Earth projection, which better shows the relative sizes of land masses.
When it comes to crab records, it has to be a Chesapeake Bay state that takes home the, er, cake. In fact, the largest crab ...
The world looks different depending on the map. A UN resolution seeks fairer representation while exposing the political ...
However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...
A Finnish couple spent five years searching Google Maps and government property records for an island they could call their ...
Four decades after his Times Square artwork challenged the definition of America, the Chilean architect still calls himself ...
The UN has voted to retire the Mercator projection. South Africa's engineers, surveyors and cable planners abandoned it ...
The continent’s physical size is potentially an asset – but poor connectivity can turn size into economic distance Read more ...
CPP Investments surveyed $65 trillion in global AUM to map what separates investor confidence from committed capital in ...
Japan has protested a new world map adopted by the UN after it showed the disputed Kuril Islands as part of Russia. Japan’s ...
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