On September 4, 2026, the United Nations adopted a resolution to promote a new map of the world. The resolution encourages ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, ...

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

For generations, the world map many of us grew up looking at has shaped how we imagine the size of countries and continents. But there is a problem: the familiar Mercator projection does not ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Share on X (Opens in new window) Copy this page's address to your clipboard I was an African studies minor who worked my way through UCLA, typing articles for ...

When Abimbola Ogundairo saw a pretty wooden map she thought would be great decor for her walls, she did something most regular buyers wouldn’t think of: She messaged the manufacturers with a simple, ...

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 ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Maps are often assumed to be faithful representations of reality, a straightforward spatial visualization of where things are in relationship to each other and a guide for getting from one location to ...