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

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

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

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

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

It has been confirmed that ‘Dokdo’ has vanished from the Korean edition of the world map ‘Equal Earth (Equal Earth)’, which was produced using a projection recommended by the UN. Not only the ...

The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a new world map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions.

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by the ...

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 ...

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I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...