# Class: EqualEarth

## Highcharts. EqualEarth

#### new EqualEarth()

  The Equal Earth map projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical projection for world maps, invented by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson in 2018. It is inspired by the widely used Robinson projection, but unlike the Robinson projection, retains the relative size of areas. The projection equations are simple to implement and fast to evaluate.

  We chose this as the default world map projection for Highcharts because it is visually pleasing like Robinson, but avoids the political problem of rendering high-latitude regions like Europe and North America larger than tropical regions.