Can you guess the real size of each country on the new world map?
To address this, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted 164 to 1 on Friday to adopt a resolution promoting the Equal Earth projection, which shows continents in their true proportions, as an alternative to Mercator.
The African Union adopted Equal Earth in March.
Map quiz: Pick the bigger countrySee it for yourself: pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth to see how close you were.
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