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

A laboratory worker in Irkutsk, Russia has died from the disease, according to reports.

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look larger than their actual relative sizes, and those near the equator look muc ...

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 ...

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 not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps. The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

The United States was the only country that voted against a United Nations resolution encouraging the use of a world map that accurately reflects the size of continents, the Washington Post reported.

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