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Equal Earth vs. Mercator: The Newer Projection Trying to Fix an Old Distortion

This post was originally published in Saïd Abou Kharroub's Digital Geography Dispatch newsletter. You can subscribe to it here.

Most people have only ever seen one shape of the world —the familiar rectangular map with Greenland looking almost as big as Africa. That's the Mercator projection, and it's nearly 500 years old. In 2018, three cartographers introduced a genuine alternative: the Equal Earth projection. Here's what it actually changes, and why it matters.

Sept. 8, 2026

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