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

The United Nations General Assembly is voting Friday on whether to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong ...

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The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true ...

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

Some countries and territories, including Canada, Greenland and Russia, will soon look notably smaller on official United Nations maps. That is due to a recent resolution adopted by the UN General ...

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for greater use of map projections that more accurately represent the relative size of different regions. India voted in favour of ...

The United Nations General Assembly has backed an African Union-led effort to change how the world is represented on maps, adopting a resolution calling for more accurate and equitable cartographic ...

School classrooms across the world may soon do away with the distortions in the old map shrinking the size of Africa, Latin America and South Asia after the United Nations (UN) has overwhelmingly ...

Map correction is not an easy task. The United Nations must have realised this soon after adopting a resolution to promote equal-area map projections that more accurately show the true size of Africa ...