The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look ...

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

Officials within Marco Rubio's State Department caused major embarrassment after using a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent. The ...

The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.

The common Mercator projection map distorts the size of continents, making Africa appear much smaller than it is. The United Nations General Assembly voted to encourage the use of maps that more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screen shows a US government map of Africa with mislabeled countries during a State Department presentation at a global ...

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 ...

State Department says staffer hastily altered slide deck before Rio event Reuters analysis finds map image carries OpenAI watermark Map places Nigeria in Sahara and shifts Mozambique and Ivory Coast ...