Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United Nations this month overwhelmingly approved a resolution encouraging the use of a world map projection that more ...

Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland. Brazil is five times bigger than Alaska. Canada and China are roughly the same size. But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely ...

Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is. By John Yoon The United Nations General Assembly on ...

It is not that the map has changed. It is our way of looking at the world that has changed.I would like you to take a look at ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly backed a resolution aimed at changing the way Africa and other regions are represented on world maps. The "Correct the Map" ...

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