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

The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is. By 164 votes to ...

Paris (France) (AFP) – The French foreign ministry on Friday said it plans to abandon using maps with the traditional Mercator projection of the world, backing a push by Africa to give the continent a ...

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. A shrunken Africa, a Greenland and a northern Russia that seem to stretch into infinity: that is about to disappear from the maps ...

Is the world map changing!? A perspective on the world through the Equal Earth projectionRecently, the "Equal Earth ...

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 ...

With a population smaller than a mid-sized American suburb and an economy heavily dependent on Danish subsidies, Greenland would seem an unlikely candidate for the center of a geopolitical firestorm.

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 ...

A shrunken Africa, a Greenland and a northern Russia that seem to stretch into infinity: that is about to disappear from the maps used by French diplomacy. Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced ...