As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and ...
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, ...
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.
However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...
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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.
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