The UN General Assembly has endorsed a non-binding, African-led resolution promoting equal-area map projections such as Equal Earth to better represent the size of continents.

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 ...

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The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look larger than their actual relative sizes, and those near the equator look muc ...

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

In a historic move last week, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage the use of new world maps which more accurately depict continents with their true sizes. The move ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform a map showing the US flag over not only the United States but also Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Caribbean, Mexico, and multiple countries ...

BRUSSELS ― Iceland summoned the U.S. ambassador after President Donald Trump posted a map showing the country and other areas in the colors of the American flag, which Icelandic officials Tuesday ...