The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator map with one that accurately reflects Africa’s true size Advocates say the centuries-old projection misrepresents ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, ...

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.