Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

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Mind-blowing map shows real size of every country - there's a massive north-south divide Africa, Europe and North America are completely different on this new map.

This phenomenon can be attributed to the Mercator projection, a map most commonly seen hanging in classrooms and in text books, which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that ...