LoméOn Mercator, Africa looks the size of Greenland.

Africa is actually 14 times larger than it appears, distorting perception in classrooms worldwide.

Mercator preserves compass bearing for 16th-century sailors, while Equal Earth preserves each country’s true relative area.

Togo, sponsor of the nonbinding resolution, plans new textbooks by year’s end.

How each outlet framed it

drawn from 300+ reports worldwide

TRT World
quantifies distortion—Greenland 14x oversized on Mercator; Equal Earth adoption frames map inequity as north-south fairness issue (164-1)

Sources: TRT World