This latest map is able to portray both an accurate size and shape of the Earth’s landmasses, thereby resolving the two issues of previous world maps. The search for an unbiased, well ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually ... The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of countries and continents.

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...