As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and ...

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

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

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.