But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

Karl Bushby, a 57-year-old British adventurer, returned to U.K. soil on Monday, Oct. 5, after a 28-year trek across the world ...

New World blackbirds such as orioles and grackles seem to have reached South America millions of years before the Panama land ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true ...

The common Mercator projection map distorts the size of continents, making Africa appear much smaller than it is. The United Nations General Assembly voted to encourage the use of maps that more ...

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...

The International Performing Arts Festival will be at the Maitland Art Center Oct. 12-18 with artists from Panama, Iran, ...

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...

The cartographers who designed the more accurate map of the world to replace the inaccurate Mercator projection have joined ...

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