UN to vote on adopting new map that would make our world look very different

The United Nations General Assembly is voting Friday on whether to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true ...

UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa

UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

Size matters: Why India has a stake in the African-led campaign to decolonise world maps

The Mercator map that is now most familiar distorts the size of Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania and inflates ...

UN backs push for more accurate world maps; India votes in favour

The United Nations General Assembly has backed efforts to make world maps more accurately reflect the relative size of ...
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World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...