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

The French foreign ministry on Friday said it plans to abandon using maps with the traditional Mercator projection of the world, backing a push by Africa to give the continent a more realistic ...

The United Nations adopted the Equal Earth map showing Africa's true size, but the United States was the sole nation to vote against the resolution.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to phase out Mercator projections and adopt Equal Earth projections, a change meant to better represent geographic size on maps. The vote came on Sept. 4, ...

France will stop using maps based on the traditional Mercator projection, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced on ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

The Mercator map makes Africa look smaller than it is, as a push for more accurate maps asks us to rethink how we see the ...

Compare Greenland and South America on a world map.On a Mercator projection map, the large northern island appears wider than ...

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 ...

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

The subject of projections is incredibly complicated and you did a good job of navigating the discussion (‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias, 18 ...