The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

The new map is intended to reduce geographic distortions in educational materials, public communications and data ...

MAPS of the world have the impossible task of portraying the Earth—a three-dimensional shape—on a flat sheet of paper. Mapmakers have to choose a projection of the globe that approximates the basic ...

The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with ...

Buy the Guardian from Saturday 18 April 2009 to Friday 25 April 2009 to collect the free World Factfile booklets profiling 195 countries. On Saturday we are giving away a free map of the world to mark ...

Maps “really are a time capsule of how that cartographer saw the world,” said Tony Rodono, owner of The Map Shop, based in ...

The world map most of us have grown up seeing may not show the world as it really is. The United Nations has backed a move to replace the widely used Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Maps are famous for distorting the earth. Because they portray our world in only two dimensions, continents and countries become skewed, as does our perception of how big they truly are. And that ...

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels. By Natasha Frost Reporting ...