Africa has long been represented as smaller than its real size in maps, which are largely based on an ancient projection.

If you open Google Maps, you’ll notice that Greenland looks like it’s about the same size as Africa. However, the African ...

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

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.It inflated ...

The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true ...

The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an "Equal Earth" map. The U.S. described it as a "radical ideological project." ...

State Department says staffer hastily altered slide deck before Rio event Reuters analysis finds map image carries OpenAI watermark Map places Nigeria in Sahara and shifts Mozambique and Ivory Coast ...

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