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

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator 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 Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look ...

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

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The U.S. was lone 'no' vote.

The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a new world map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions.

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." ...

The United Nations General Assembly has, for the first time, formally endorsed a global shift away from the centuries-old ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

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