Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world.

A NEW world map has officially been adopted after a UN vote – with the fresh model reducing the size of Britain and the US ...

Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding ...

The UN resolution instead endorses use of the Equal Earth projection, which better shows the relative sizes of land masses.

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

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

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

The U.N. voted to endorse a new world map called "Equal Earth" that more accurately depicts the size of continents.

The United Nations is overwhelmingly in support of an effort to change how the world is represented on maps, focusing on correcting distortions that have long made Africa appear s ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, ...

The UN General Assembly voted to back the Equal Earth cartographic projection in a bid to provide what it described as a ...

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