Every world map you’ve seen is wrong – this is what maps should look like

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point. See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

Cartographers presented this solution in a new article published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. According to that new article...