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.
Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world.
However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...
Equal Earth is designed to show countries at their true relative size, in a UN push led by Togo with African Union backing at U.N.