UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...
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.
The world may soon look a little different the next time you open a map ...
There are many different methods of portraying a three-dimensional sphere on a two-dimensional surface, and each comes with ...
Every flat map sacrifices some geographical properties. Equal Earth preserves relative land area, while Mercator's ...
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How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map
The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.
The UN general assembly has voted 164 to 1 to retire the centuries-old Mercator map in favor of the more accurate Equal Earth ...
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