The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

The common Mercator projection map distorts the size of continents, making Africa appear much smaller than it is. The United Nations General Assembly voted to encourage the use of maps that more ...

The Fight for a New Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size Challenges Centuries of Western Dominance AFRICA When Nigerian-born ...

A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

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

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...