See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The United Nations this month overwhelmingly approved a resolution ...

Did you feel that? The Earth moved. Or rather, our perception of the Earth shifted. Still, don't retire that "Everything is Bigger in Texas" bumper sticker just yet. More on that in a bit. On Sept. 4, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A view of the world that has prevailed for around 450 years has been challenged. On 4 September, the United Nations General Assembly voted to phase out use of the Mercator map, a sixteenth-century ...

The External Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday (September 8, 2026) that it has taken up the "anomalies" in the world map, used extensively in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) during the ...

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...

Despite being developed for navigation, the Mercator projection has remained common in educational materials, media, digital mapping, and other forms of geographic representation. Its continued use ...

(ABC NEWS) — The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...