A flat-Earth creator argues that the Southern Hemisphere must be much larger than globe maps show, citing time zones, yacht speeds, flight paths and submarine cables. SciManDan checks those claims and ...

We take it as truth that not only does X mark the spot, it shows us the size of the spot, what the spot's name is and how the ...

But while the physical geography of our world can be set in stone, the reality is that maps are not. There are choices ...

Earlier this month, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt Equal Earth maps and to phase out the distortions of the widely used Mercator Projection.

The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.

The Equal Earth supports a more accurate geographic understanding of the relative sizes of countries and continents. It ...

A Flat Earther attempts to fold a flat map over a globe to prove the Earth is not curved. The demonstration seems ...

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...

The world map most of us have grown up seeing may not show the world as it really is. The United Nations has backed a move to replace the widely used Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, ...

The map of Africa is much larger than most people think. However, most classroom maps and atlases still understate it – a distortion embedded in the Mercator projection that has shaped world maps for ...

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 ...

The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.” ...