The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

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

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to endorse a new world map that shows Africa's large size more accurately.

The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.

Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding van Togo met steun van de Afrikaanse Unie bij de VN.

The Equal Earth projection, developed in 2018, portrays the landmasses' areas more accurately than the widely used Mercator projection. Strebe via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 If you open ...

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Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...