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

UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

Africa has long been represented as smaller than its real size in maps, which are largely based on an ancient projection.

Maps have often misrepresented the real sizes of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed nations.

The Equal Earth shows the true size of Earth's continents much more accurately than the more popular Mercator projection.

We are talking about 54 countries in Africa out of the 193 or 195 nations in this world (depending on how you see the world) ...

The United Nations has endorsed the 'Equal Earth' map projection to replace the traditional Mercator map, which distorts the ...