Some countries and territories, including Canada, Greenland and Russia, will soon look notably smaller on official United Nations maps. That is due to a recent resolution adopted by the UN General ...

The final instalment of Square Enix’s reimagining of the 1997 classic gives full open world access and adds a costume-based ...

The map covers 75% of the sky, and you can explore all sorts of cool celestial objects once you know where to look.

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

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

The United Nations will vote Friday to adopt a new map of the world meant to make the countries appear more true to size than ...

The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows true size of all countries - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

UN General Assembly votes for equal-area projections, encouraging accurate landmass representation in education and mapping.

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

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.

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.