UN Adopts New Map to Show Accurate Sizes of Continents
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The United Nations has decided to transition from the widely-used Mercator map to a new projection that accurately represents the sizes of continents. The Mercator map, created by Gerardus Mercator in 1549, distorted the sizes of areas away from the equator, making Greenland appear nearly as large as Africa despite being 14 times smaller in reality.
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