The countries are not opposed to a new map per se; they’re testy about the colour shades.

The United Nations is overwhelmingly in support of an effort to change how the world is represented on maps, focusing on correcting distortions that have long made Africa appear s ...

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new ...

How big is Africa? The answer can differ strikingly from one world map to another. The question has taken on new weight since ...

The African diplomats who drafted a recent resolution by the United Nations to “Correct the Map” of the world made a tactical ...

Japan has protested the Equal Earth map's depiction of four disputed Kuril Islands, prompting a change to its ...

A Japanese version of the Equal Earth map has been revised to show the Japanese territorial color for the Northern ...

On the projection we use most often, Canada looks much bigger than it should, while African countries appear much smaller.

A historic UN resolution calls for the adoption of accurate map projections, challenging centuries of Mercator distortion to ...

On Monday, September 7, U.S. President Donald Trump published a fictional "map" on his Truth Social platform that depicted ...

Japan has entered a fresh dispute over the world map adopted by the United Nations after objecting to how the disputed Kuril ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy defiantly standing up against powerful imperialist neighbours ...