New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- In September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the "Correct the Map" resolution with the aim to replace the widely used Mercator Projection of the world map, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, with a version that is more closely aligned to reality.

The Mercator Projection, familiar to generations from the atlases and globes studied in classrooms across the world, shows Africa as roughly the same size as Greenland when the continent is around 14 times larger than the Danish territory. Togo, which spearheaded the #CorrecttheMap campaign for fairer representation based on the 2018 Equal Earth design, said that this mismatch has "had lasting cognitive, education, cultural, geopolitical...