The United Nations has voted to adopt a new map, known as the Equal Earth cartographic projection, replacing the Mercator projection maps. The old maps feature several inaccuracies, such as a larger ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses.

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...

The UN has called for the traditional world map to be replaced with one more accurately reflecting Africa’s size. How has ...

A GAP of 500 million years in our understanding of Earth’s history has been solved. This map gives us unparalleled insight into the missing millenia. To unravel this incredible history, scientists use ...

Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection of the Earth, are showing countries to be inaccurate in sizing. Some countries are shown to be a lot bigger than they really are in and around the ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...