The World Map You've Known For Years Is Wrong. Here's Why

خريطة مركاتور مقابل Equal Earth وحجم أفريقيا الحقيقي . الأمم المتحدة تغيّر خريطة العالم وتُظهر الأحجام الحقيقية للدول والقاراتThe New World Map Reveals the Truth! Mercator Map vs. Equal Earth: Africa’s True Size Revealed The UN Changes the World Map to Show the True Size of Countries and Continents. #World #maps #map #africa #equal

For 450 years, the world's most-used map has made Africa look smaller than it really is. The United Nations just voted to change that. Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down and goes back 450 years to show how the map was made — and why it stuck. #news