Antigua and Barbuda: old map vs new map

Both maps below show Antigua and Barbuda highlighted. At 17° Mercator inflates Antigua and Barbuda by only about 10%, so the two maps largely agree on it. Watch what the old map does to Bahamas beside it. That contrast is why the new world map matters.

At 17°, Antigua and Barbuda sits in the band the old map drew almost honestly. It is one of the regions Mercator quietly under-represented, and that is exactly what the new Equal Earth map restores.

Antigua and Barbuda: key figures

	True area	On the old Mercator map	Distortion vs truth
Antigua and Barbuda	442 km²	485 km²	1.1×
Greenland	2,166,086 km²	25,576,494 km²	11.8×
Africa	30,370,000 km²	n/a	n/a

Old maps drew Antigua and Barbuda at about 485 km². The truth is 442 km², a difference of 10% that school atlases carried for centuries.

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