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 ...

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...

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

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington. Aimed at "a ...

The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

This is the Mercator Projection; it's the world map most humans have been using for quite a while. It was first drawn up by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UN General Assembly earlier this month voted to adopt a new map of the world, which passed with the support of 164 nations, ...

For generations, the world map many of us grew up looking at has shaped how we imagine the size of countries and continents. But there is a problem: the familiar Mercator projection does not ...

Maps could be redrawn in classrooms across the world as the United Nations votes on a resolution to bring in a new model which more accurately displays the size of Africa. The 80th session of the UN ...

The new ‘true-scale’ map shrinks Europe and North America while enlarging Africa – and depicts the disputed Kuril islands as ruled by Moscow ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted Saturday to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that makes their continent bigger while shrinking North America and ...