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

World Bank and BBC – to switch to the Equal Earth map projection, a fairer and more accurate representation of global geography. Through a global petition and campaign charter, the initiative invites ...

In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing countries' shapes and was excellent at showing ocean sailing courses, very important to ...

The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the size of developing nations more accurately, charitable organizations ...

Its "About" page said: It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of ...

This 1912 map uses the Mercator projection, which inflates the size ... Thinking about the world in two-dimensions also distorts our ideas about how to get from one place to another, says ...

Representing a 3D world on a 2D map is always going to end ... It's a cylindrical map projection, in which you place the globe into a cylinder and then project each point of the map onto a ...

This phenomenon can be attributed to the Mercator projection, a map most commonly seen hanging in classrooms and in text books which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world.

Mercator Projection (Credit: Daniel R ... mathematician even developed an eponymous equation to quantify the degree of distortion that a world map experienced. Called Tissot’s indicatrix, the equation ...

The replacement map shows countries’ true proportions to one another. Created by German historian Arno Peters and introduced to the world in 1974, the Peters Projection map has been adopted for ...