Africa has long been represented as smaller than its real size in maps, which are largely based on an ancient projection.

UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a new world map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions.

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday calling for world maps to more accurately reflect the ...

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while ...

The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.

For more than 450 years Africa has sat on the world map a diminished shade of itself, but now the redrawing of those maps has ...

The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.

It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.

Correcting the map matters because the continent is choosing how it will be seen and beginning with how it sees itself.