Both maps below show Uganda highlighted. At 1° Mercator inflates Uganda by only about 0.05%, so the two maps largely agree on it. Watch what the old map does to Malawi beside it. That contrast is why the new world map matters.
At 1°, Uganda 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.
Uganda: key figures
| True area | On the old Mercator map | Distortion vs truth |
|---|
| Uganda | 241,550 km² | 241,671 km² | 1.00× |
| Greenland | 2,166,086 km² | 25,576,494 km² | 11.8× |
| Africa | 30,370,000 km² | n/a | n/a |
Old maps drew Uganda at about 241,671 km². The truth is 241,550 km², a difference of 0.05% that school atlases carried for centuries.