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

The UN resolution instead endorses use of the Equal Earth projection, which better shows the relative sizes of land masses.

The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.

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

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new ...

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

The UN General Assembly has adopted the Equal Earth projection to replace the 400-year-old Mercator map, pushing to correct a centuries-old cartographic distortion that severely shrinks the African ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by the ...

<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 ...

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 ...