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 ...

How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world.

Last Friday, the United Nations voted 164-1 to support a new kind of world map. The Equal Earth map is designed to more accurately show the real size of continents and other land masses. The agreement ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

A new approach to mapping the world could change how the size of countries is perceived. On September 4, 2026, the United ...

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...

The UN General Assembly passed a Togo-led resolution urging accurate world maps to correct Mercator distortions. 164 countries supported the non-binding measure for education, but the US voted no, ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted Saturday to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that makes their continent bigger while shrinking North America and ...