The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

Africa is much larger than it appears on many familiar world maps. That is because the maps we have grown up seeing often distort the relative size of continents, making regions closer to the poles ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

Robert Dussey, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Togo, introduces the "Correct the map" draft resolution. Africa is much larger than it appears on many familiar world maps. That is because the maps we ...