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 ...

The United Nations General Assembly has backed an African Union-led effort to change how the world is represented on maps, adopting a resolution calling for more accurate and equitable cartographic ...

UN General Assembly adopts a Togo-led resolution backed by 164 nations to promote the Equal Earth projection and accurately ...

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The equal Earth map shows the size of countries more accurately than the Mercator map, which we've used for centuries. Image ...

New York: The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a new resolution calling for more accurate and balanced representation of the relative sizes of continents on world maps, particularly Africa, ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

India has voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution aimed at correcting the world map to promote a “more accurate representation” of continental landmasses. The 193-member UN General ...

The United Nations General Assembly has backed efforts to make world maps more accurately reflect the relative size of continents, with 164 countries ...

Continents are not changing, but how we see their size on maps could be The world map in your classroom may soon get a makeover. Africa could appear much larger, while Greenland may look far smaller.