The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage alternatives to the centuries-old Mercator projection, which dramatically distorts the relative size of Africa.

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

The assembly approved a resolution favoring the Equal Earth projection, a map that supporters say shows the true size of countries. Only the U.S. voted no.

As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and wrong.

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

The UN General Assembly voted to back the Equal Earth cartographic projection in a bid to provide what it described as a 'more accurate representation' of the world's land masses.

India has voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution encouraging the use of equal-area world map projections, while clarifying that the move does not endorse any specific map or projection. The MEA said the resolution does not address political cartography,

UN's non-binding resolution asks schools, publishers and tech firms to switch to equal-area projections. India voted yes, with a caveat.