Africa has long been represented as smaller than its real size in maps, which are largely based on an ancient projection.

The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an "Equal Earth" map. The U.S. described it as a "radical ideological project." ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington.It inflated ...

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...

The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.

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 ...

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

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

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

For years, centuries even, we’ve been led to believe that the African continent, the mother of much of civilization, the cradle of humankind, is no bigger than Greenland — even though it is actually ...