However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...

The UN General Assembly adopts the Equal Earth map 164-1, with the US opposing the move as a 'radical ideological project.' ...

The UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to drop 500 year old Mercator world maps on September 4 2026. The UN assembly urged ...

The U.N. voted to endorse a new world map called "Equal Earth" that more accurately depicts the size of continents.

The United Nations adopted the Equal Earth map showing Africa's true size, but the United States was the sole nation to vote ...

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to ...

There are many different methods of portraying a three-dimensional sphere on a two-dimensional surface, and each comes with ...

Tokyo claims the map uses the same color for the islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories, as it does for Russian ...

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 ...

There are many methods of portraying a three-dimensional shape on a two-dimensional surface, and each comes with tradeoffs ...