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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Equal Earth projection accurately reflects countries' relative sizes. - Equal Earth The United Nations General Assembly voted ...

What if the size of countries on a world map were determined not by land area, but by the number of internet addresses? What could we read from such a familiar map?IPTrust's "If IPv4 Were Land" is a p ...

Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland. Brazil is five times bigger than Alaska. Canada and China are roughly the same size. But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely ...

The judge said he had misled the court, police and museum about the map's location and had been given eight months to return ...