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

The United Nations has backed a move away from the familiar Mercator world map in favour of a projection that shows countries closer to their true relative sizes. The UN General Assembly adopted the ...

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 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 ...

A new map of the world rescales the size of Africa and calls into question our perception of land, power and influence This month, the UN passed a resolution, brought to the assembly by Togo, to phase ...