UN endorses new world map showing Africa’s true size
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The United Nations General Assembly is voting Friday on whether to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.
As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and wrong.
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 signatures. The map most commonly used is called the ...
Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the world maps we've been using for centuries don't show the ...
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The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional Mercator world map, which drastically shrinks Africa’s size. For hundreds of years, most of the world has looked at maps that make Africa appear roughly