The United Nations has voted to move away from the centuries-old Mercator projection and promote the 2018 Equal Earth map, a design that more accurately represents the relative size of the world's ...

On September 4, 2026, the United Nations adopted a resolution to promote a new map of the world. The resolution encourages governments, schools and organizations to replace the much-criticized ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World maps distort size and shape by design. Learn why projections matter and how they shape global understanding. (CREDIT: ...

The process of converting a three-dimensional(3D) spherical globe into a two-dimensional(2D) flat surface creates a problem for the cartographer. A trade-off is required between the accuracy of ...

African advocacy organizations have initiated a paradigm shift by initiating a resulting campaign to replace the twisted Mercator map that distorts the African continent by 14 times to be replaced by ...

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 ...

A world map is one of the most familiar images in modern life, but no flat world map can show the Earth exactly as it is. The reason is mathematical: Earth is approximately spherical, while a ...

The African Union has officially called on international organizations to adopt a mapping projection that more accurately reflects the true size of the African continent. One of the most commonly used ...

Maps are supposed to tell us what the world looks like – the names, shapes and sizes of landmasses and water bodies. Though they are considered neutral depictions of land and sea, they can be sites of ...

(CNN) — The United Nations General Assembly is voting Friday on whether to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a ...

The UN’s overwhelming backing for a more accurate map of the world may look like a cartographic correction. But behind the push to reduce Mercator’s dominance lies a larger Global South challenge to ...