Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An infographic on the United Nations' efforts to promote maps that more accurately represent Africa. Created in Ankara, Turkiye, ...

Did you feel that? The Earth moved. Or rather, our perception of the Earth shifted. Still, don't retire that "Everything is Bigger in Texas" bumper sticker just yet. More on that in a bit. On Sept. 4, ...

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 ...

The UN resolution, supported by 164 countries with the United States voting against, urges member states to adopt the “Equal Earth” projection over the traditional 16th-century Mercator map. Want more ...

This interactive map compares the Mercator projection versus the Equal Earth projection. Use the slide bar to compare the 2 maps. Image via EqualEarthMap.app. Science news, night sky events and ...

Nearly every country represented in the United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents. But the UN resolution ...

For centuries, maps have shaped how people understand the world. But the image of the planet most commonly used makes some countries look bigger or smaller than they actually are. That’s because the ...

The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to urge governments, schools, and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look much smaller than it really is. By 164 votes to one ...

Despite being developed for navigation, the Mercator projection has remained common in educational materials, media, digital mapping, and other forms of geographic representation. Its continued use ...

The map of Africa is much larger than most people think. However, most classroom maps and atlases still understate it – a distortion embedded in the Mercator projection that has shaped world maps for ...

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