The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map ...

On September 4, 2026, the United Nations adopted a resolution to promote a new map of the world. The resolution encourages ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with ...

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 ...

Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

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 ...

The Mercator projection, left, distorts the relative size of landmasses, particularly towards the poles. The Equal Earth ...

Look at a conventional Mercator world map, and Greenland can appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger. That striking mismatch is at the heart of a renewed ...

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.

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out ...