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How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map
The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.
UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...
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Can you guess the real size of each country on the new world map?
Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage alternatives to the centuries-old Mercator projection, which dramatically distorts the relative size of Africa.
The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while ...
The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...
A claim of a UN world map vote on Africa’s scale lacks a resolution, voting record, year and source needed for verification.
By Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday voted for a shift away from the ...
When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...
The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...
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