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 Fight for a New Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size Challenges Centuries of Western Dominance AFRICA When Nigerian-born ...

Odzala-Kokoua in the Republic of the Congo offers encounters with western lowland gorillas, forest elephants, and one of the ...

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

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

The Mercator Projection, which preserves shape and direction but distorts relative landmass. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia ...

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A new map of the world rescales the size of Africa and calls into question our perception of land, power and influence This month, the UN passed a resolution, brought to the assembly by Togo, to phase ...

History was made on Friday when a new map (the Equal Earth Map) of the world was endorsed by the United Nations in a vote on a resolution to correct the ‘distortions’ in the old world map, which was ...

The UN General Assembly has endorsed a non-binding, African-led resolution promoting equal-area map projections such as Equal Earth to better represent the size of continents.

For centuries, the world has looked at Africa through a distorted geographical lens. The familiar world map has made Greenland appear almost as large as Africa, while the continent that can contain ...