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

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

Mapping a sphere onto a flat plane is mathematically impossible. But a better world map than the Mercator projection is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global ...

Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland. Brazil is five times bigger than Alaska. Canada and China are roughly the same size. But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely ...

Maps are supposed to show us the truth. But here’s the thing — every map you’ve ever seen is, in some way, a lie. The moment you try to flatten a three-dimensional sphere onto a two-dimensional ...

In a historic move last week, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage the use of new world maps which more accurately depict continents with their true sizes. The move ...

On the second day in Tokyo, I visited the Toyo Bunko Museum, a place I have long wanted to see. They are currently holding a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A world map familiar to generations of students could lose ground under ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...