A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

Are you sitting down? The world map you’re probably most familiar with has been misleading you in a subtle but important way: many land masses appear either smaller or larger than they actually are.

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

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

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.

Cartographers have unveiled a new map of the world which shows the size of the continents more accurately. The new projection is called Equal Earth and is designed to represent the relative sizes ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The Equal Earth map aims to resolve many of the issues with maps, maintaining the relative sizes of the continents without sacrificing a ‘visually pleasing and balanced’ presentation.

Geographically and historically correct locations Greatest Earth Map is a highly satisfying alternative to Civilization 6’s built-in Earth map, which is only playable at a much smaller size.