The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most ...

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

If you open Google Maps, you’ll notice that Greenland looks like it’s about the same size as Africa. However, the African ...

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

Maps can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else. But while the physical geography of our world can be set in ...

Last week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows ...

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 Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

The most detailed portraits ever of the Earth’s land surface have been created with ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite. The portraits are the first products produced as part of the ESA-initiated ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...