This latest map is able to portray both an accurate size and shape of the Earth’s landmasses, thereby resolving the two issues of previous world maps. The search for an unbiased, well ...

So, a Flemish geographer and cartographer named Gerardus Mercator came up with a solution for the most accurate ... world map look like? To show how incorrect our understanding of countries by ...

According to that new article, this new world map is not only the most accurate ever created, but it actually showcases the proper size of the landmasses and continents that make up our planet.

A team of three mapmakers, led by J Richard Gott from Princeton University, have come up with a new kind of map that claims to be the most accurate, yet flat, depiction of the world yet.