The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

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UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

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A claim of a UN world map vote on Africa’s scale lacks a resolution, voting record, year and source needed for verification.

As technology moves at the speed of light, we often hear that "there's an app for that." And while maps have been around for centuries, they've evolved to be more than just about navigation, or ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...