Azores President José Manuel Bolieiro discussed the islands' shift toward tech and space research during visit to Fall River.

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.

Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico. By Paulina Villegas and Adriana Zehbrauskas It was unclear what ...

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

See more of our coverage in your search results. Make New York Post a Preferred Source The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

Sept. 4 (UPI) --The United Nations will vote Friday to adopt a new map of the world meant to make the countries appear more true to size than they are on the one we use today. The 2018 equal Earth ...