Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

On September 4, 2026, the United Nations adopted a resolution to promote a new map of the world. The resolution encourages governments, schools and organizations to replace the much-criticized ...

If you open Google Maps, you’ll notice that Greenland looks like it’s about the same size as Africa. However, the African continent is actually around 14 times larger than the icy landmass. This ...

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 ...

It is not that the map has changed. It is our way of looking at the world that has changed.I would like you to take a look at ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

Going beyond borders, territorial limits and navigation, new-age cartographers are creating maps that show us the world with ...

When you look at a world map on a classroom wall or in a document at hand, Greenland at the northern edge is sometimes ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...