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

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

A pair of California friends set a Guinness World Record by assembling all 11,695 pieces of the Lego World Map in 4 hours, 59 ...

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

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

The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a new world map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions.

Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding van Togo met steun van de Afrikaanse Unie bij de VN.

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 ...

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