The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

Earlier this month, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt Equal Earth maps and to phase out the distortions of the widely used Mercator Projection.

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

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The UN has endorsed the Equal Earth Projection, a new map that makes Australia bigger and the US smaller. Here's what that means.

The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a new world map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions.

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

This is the Mercator Projection; it's the world map most humans have been using for quite a while. It was first drawn up by ...