Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding van Togo met steun van de Afrikaanse Unie bij de VN.

Maps can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else. But while the physical geography of our world can be set in ...

France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of a map that better reflects actual continental sizes, especially Africa. A ...

The United Nations has voted to adopt a new world map that more accurately reflects countries’ true sizes, a resolution sponsored by African states to right a centuries-old wrong. The “Correct the Map ...

The map of Africa is much larger than most people think. However, most classroom maps and atlases still understate it – a distortion embedded in the Mercator projection that has shaped world maps for ...

Saudi Arabia and the UAE look smaller than expected on familiar world maps. A UN vote backing Equal Earth helps explain the distortion and what changes Saudi Arabia and the UAE may be bigger than they ...

The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps. The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a ...

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially enlarged the farther they are from the Earth’s equator, which leads to ...

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

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is. By John Yoon The United Nations General Assembly on ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 300 data centers are currently operating in Texas, with approximately an additional 200 planned and nearly 100 already under construction. KXAN obtained data from Data Center ...