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

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

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

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 UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional Mercator world map, which drastically shrinks Africa’s size. For hundreds of years, most of the world has looked at maps that make Africa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The map of Africa is much larger than most people think. However, most classroom maps and atlases still understate it – a ...