Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

A More Accurate Map The Problem With the Mercator Projection In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of the world ...

Most earlier maps that included the region were not intended for navigation and were so imprecise that they are virtually unrecognizable to the modern eye. With this map, it’s as if some medieval ...