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

A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credits: Unsplash Pop open a blank world map and ask the average person to point to a handful of countries that make ...

It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.

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 ...

The world is changing quickly. Rising geopolitical tensions are reordering global power and testing the resilience of democratic institutions. Multiple climate and ecological systems are approaching ...

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to explain what’s going on. A map projection is a technique that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global ...

The map of Africa is much larger than most people think. However, most classroom maps and atlases still understate it – a distortion embedded in the Mercator projection that has shaped world maps for ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...