This map shows the Equal Earth projection, as developed in 2018 by the cartographers Tom Patterson, Bojan Šavrič and Bernhard Jenny. This particular version is 1.4, published in 2025 and centred on the Greenwich meridian. The Spanish translation was carried out by Dennis McClendon and Pedro Zurita Zaragoza.

This is a pseudo-cylindrical and equivalent projection. This means it preserves the relative area of each territory, although it distorts the shapes to some extent, particularly at higher latitudes. The map features more than 2,600 place names and includes tables showing the countries with the largest land areas (bottom left) and the largest populations (bottom right).

This initiative was launched in response to the controversy that arose in 2017, when Boston’s state schools adopted the Gall-Peters projection to address the under-representation of Africa and other equatorial regions in the Mercator projection. The designers were looking for an equivalent alternative which, as well as retaining the areas, would be visually balanced.

On 4 September 2026, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, with 164 votes in favour, a non-binding resolution recommending the use of equivalent projections, in particular Equal Earth, in educational and informational contexts where areas are compared.

You can read more about this map in this article.

Sources

• Equal Earth – Political Wall Map