@goodgoodgoodco: The United Nations has a new official map that better, more accurately reflects the true scale of countries relative to each other, particularly Africa. In a 164-1 vote, with only the U.S. in opposition, the UN general assembly decided to officially replace the Mercator projection map with the 2018 Equal Earth design. Togo spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, and said it “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination.”

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Wednesday 09 September 2026 16:05:29 GMT