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

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 ...

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

Ukraine was one of six countries which abstained from the vote at the UNGA, along with Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and ...

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

As soon as I heard that the United Nations would be voting on a new map of the world, one that better reflected Africa’s true ...

The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a U.N. resolution backing Africa’s “Correct the Map” campaign and more accurate world ...

The lone dissent came from Washington on a UN resolution over a map long criticized for making Africa look smaller than it is ...

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...

The U.N. voted to endorse a new world map called "Equal Earth" that more accurately depicts the size of continents.

The UN resolution instead endorses use of the Equal Earth projection, which better shows the relative sizes of land masses.