The UN is in favour of changing the traditional world map to one that shows Africa occupying rather more space than it ...

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The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) took a long-overdue step toward correcting distortions in commonly used world maps, particularly the Mercator projection, which is seen as misrepresenting ...

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.

The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look ...

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...

Ukraine was one of six countries which abstained from the vote at the UNGA, along with Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and ...

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new ...

The lone dissent came from Washington on a UN resolution over a map long criticized for making Africa look smaller than it is ...

Some countries and territories, including Canada, Greenland and Russia, will soon look notably smaller on official United Nations maps. That is due to a recent resolution adopted by the UN General ...

The UN resolution instead endorses use of the Equal Earth projection, which better shows the relative sizes of land masses.