The UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to drop 500 year old Mercator world maps on September 4 2026. The UN assembly urged ...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to phase out Mercator projections and adopt Equal Earth projections, a change meant to better represent geographic size on maps. The vote came on Sept. 4, ...

The Mercator map, which most of us grew up with, makes Africa look smaller and Greenland much larger than they are-but that's just the tip of the iceberg.

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

Led by Togo and supported by the Africa Group, the initiative promotes the Equal Earth projection. Its sponsors argue that ...

The challenge is not whether we can draw a different map, the challenge is whether, having seen the distortion, we are ...

France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of ...

The United Nations has endorsed the 'Equal Earth' map projection to replace the traditional Mercator map, which distorts the ...

Togo has announced plans to change its school geography materials by the end of the year after the United Nations General ...