The Congress in Arunachal Pradesh on September 10 objected to the depiction of the state in a recently released UN world map, ...

Because the US rejects reality, it voted against the UN's Correct the Map plan ...

Japan was among the 164 UN members that supported the new world map, until it realised the disputed Kuril islands were in the same colour as Russia.

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.

For 450 years, the world’s most-used map has made Africa look smaller than it really is. The United Nations just voted to change that. Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down and goes back 450 ...

Some countries and territories, including Canada, Greenland and Russia, will soon look notably smaller on official United Nations maps. That is due to a recent resolution adopted by the UN General ...

The United Nations recently voted in favor of a map that depicts the relative size of continents and countries more ...

The United Nations voted on Friday in favor of adopting a resolution to replace the Mercator projection, which distorts the ...