Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

A world map familiar to generations of students could lose ground under an African-led effort to represent countries and continents in their correct relative proportions. The United Nations General ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

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