Watch the World Map Change Shape
The old Mercator map squashed into Equal Earth, the projection the UN endorsed, with each continent's share of the world's land before and after.
The full videoEvery Country's True Size on the New World MapData sources
Natural Earth borders, geoBoundaries and OpenStreetMap for small islands and microstates, Encyclopaedia Britannica continents, UN General Assembly resolution A/80/L.104.
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