The United Nations approved a new world map that represents a significant change in the way the world is visualized cartographically.
The new map reduces the distortions that existed in previous projections, responsible for deforming the actual size of territories. Countries located near the Equator line appeared shrunk in traditional representations.
With the correction of these distortions, Brazil now appears with dimensions more adequate to its real territorial size on the new approved map.
Territories neighboring the poles, which were previously represented in an enlarged form due to distortions from conventional cartographic projections, now appear in more realistic proportions.
