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Al Jazeera presents an interactive quiz allowing users to guess country sizes and visualize the distortion between Mercator and Equal Earth projections.

Togo will update its educational geography materials to reflect Africa's true size following a United Nations resolution on map projections.

The United Nations has supported a transition from the Mercator projection to the Equal Earth projection, which more accurately represents the relative sizes of continents and countries, particularly correcting the distortion of Africa's size.

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is.

The United Nations officially recommends adopting the Equal Earth map projection to replace the traditionally used Mercator system for more accurate geographic representation.