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Can you guess the real size of each country on the new world map?
Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.
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 ...
Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for ...
Maps have often misrepresented the real sizes of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed nations.
The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.
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