A trio of scientists have devised a new way to try to represent our spherical planet as a flat picture with a new class of projection that involves printing the map as a double-sided circle, Phys ...

Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Live ... A map with the Gall-Peters projection. (Image credit: Strebe; CC BY-SA 3.0) ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small ...

The institution, since 2013, has experimented with different projections, including the Robinson map, but in 2024 settled on the Equal Earth map. “The World Bank Group is committed to ensuring ...