But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

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

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look ...

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...

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

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...

It has been confirmed that ‘Dokdo’ has vanished from the Korean edition of the world map ‘Equal Earth (Equal Earth)’, which was produced using a projection recommended by the UN. Not only the ...

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 ...

Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century. The representation of the world of 1587 by the Milanese cartographer Urbano Monte ...