World Physical Educational Wall Map (Equal Earth)

Named in the UN's Correct the Map resolution. On 4 September 2026 the General Assembly voted 164–1, on a resolution brought by the African Union, to encourage equal-area projections such as Equal Earth wherever the relative size of countries and continents matters. What the vote actually changed

A physical world map on the Equal Earth projection at 1:30 300 000, printed 1 475mm wide.

The Equal Earth projection shows land areas and oceans at their true sizes relative to each other. The rounded map sides suggest the spherical form of the Earth, and straight parallels allow latitude to be compared easily across the sheet. Africa appears fourteen times larger than Greenland — as it actually is.

Continents are named, and physical features are carried across the whole sheet. Peaks are named with their heights in metres. Major rivers, major lakes, dams and pans are shown, and waterfalls are named and symbolised. Coastal points and islands are named, oceans, seas, bays and straits are labelled, and undersea features are shown rather than left as flat blue. Capital cities, major cities and towns are marked, and latitude and longitude lines are drawn in degrees.

Suitable for

Geography classrooms. Terrain, rivers, lakes, waterfalls and undersea features on an equal-area projection, so continental land masses compare truthfully.

Teaching the projection itself. The sheet is a working example of how map projections change what a map appears to say.

Reference and briefing rooms. Physical geography above and below sea level on a single 1 475mm sheet.

For political geography instead. The companion sheet, the World Political Educational Wall Map (Equal Earth), carries country and dependency names on the same projection and scale.