New world map makes Africa look bigger: what’s the fuss about? Cartographers explain

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true ...
Smithsonian Magazine

World Maps Might Soon Get an Upgrade. The United Nations Votes to Endorse Global Charts That Better Represent Africa’s True Size

The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look ...

Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution

However, the Mercator map comes with the trade-off of showing inaccurate sizes for continents. Landmasses become artificially ...
Nature

Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change

The UN resolution instead endorses use of the Equal Earth projection, which better shows the relative sizes of land masses.

5 things the Mercator map gets wrong

The Mercator map, which most of us grew up with, makes Africa look smaller and Greenland much larger than they are-but that's ...
Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...

Equal-area map vs Mercator map: What is the difference?

The process of converting a three-dimensional(3D) spherical globe into a two-dimensional(2D) flat surface creates a problem ...
The Conversation

Correcting the map: How a UN resolution marks a step toward decolonizing world maps

Some countries and territories, including Canada, Greenland and Russia, will soon look notably smaller on official United Nations maps. That is due to a recent resolution adopted by the UN General ...