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

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...

For centuries the continent has been made to seem smaller than it is. Now the UN has adopted a projection that shows more ...

The United Nations recently voted in favor of a map that depicts the relative size of continents and countries more ...

The UN General Assembly has voted in favour of replacing the widely used Mercator world map with a projection that more ...

France will stop using maps based on the traditional Mercator projection, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced on Friday - backing an African push for a more accurate representation of the ...

The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to urge governments, schools, and tech companies worldwide to stop using ...

While the vote isn’t binding, the new standard may appear more frequently going forward ...

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After the equivalent of 44 years of human labour, an international group of researchers has mapped every connection in the ...