The New World Map the UN Wants You to Use

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.
Daily Mail

The map of the world as you know it will completely change to show countries' true sizes under UN resolution - with Africa much larger

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.

UN adopts new world map showing true scale of continents; only US votes against it

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Opinion
China MilitaryOpinion

New map helps correct old international order

The adoption of this resolution demonstrates a firm consensus within the international community: objective and accurate representation must be the sole standard for mapmaking and map use. At a time ...

'Africa is this big?' — The 500-year-old world map may be on its way out of the UN

The world map that generations of schoolchildren have grown up with may be headed for retirement after 500 years. On that ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...