Africa has long been represented as smaller than its real size in maps, which are largely based on an ancient projection.

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

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.

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

The UN General Assembly has endorsed a non-binding, African-led resolution promoting equal-area map projections such as Equal Earth to better represent the size of continents.

Letters: The transverse Mercator projection was created for European sailors – and it worked for their world, writes Paul Harwood ...

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially enlarged the farther they are from the Earth’s equator, which leads to ...

On the world maps most of us have seen since childhood, Greenland looks almost as big as Africa. But Africa is actually about 14 times larger, and Russia and Canada also appear far bigger than their ...

Equal Earth map projection designers will provide technical expertise to Togo and the African Union, AU, as they work to implement the “Correct the ...