Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents ...

How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.