The UN has endorsed the Equal Earth Projection, a map that accurately represents the true size of Earth’s landmasses, replacing the widely used Mercator Projection, which distorts the size of countries near the poles, making Africa appear smaller. The Equal Earth Projection ensures that Africa and other continents are depicted closer to their actual sizes, correcting longstanding cartographic inaccuracies.

This change highlights the importance of accurate geographical representation and challenges the dominance of Eurocentric maps that have long misrepresented the sizes of African and other southern hemisphere countries. Originally reported by AllAfrica