Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why. If you were to arrive in our solar system never ...

Aimed at “a more accurate representation” of continental landmasses, the resolution was supported by 164 countries, while the US voted against it and six other states abstained. The new map – known as ...

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

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The United Nations this month overwhelmingly approved a resolution ...

The United Nations has overwhelmingly backed an African-led resolution to show the continent's true scale on world maps. Togo spearheaded the campaign, arguing that the widely used Mercator map ...

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington. Aimed at "a ...

Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth's surface. The remaining space is covered by land—continents and islands. Before Earth's land formed the seven continents in the present day, all the ...

If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...