It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents such as Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the ...

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 ...

The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents/Screengrab The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be ...