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UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa’s size

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advoca...

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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

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U.N. Approves African Proposal for a New World Map

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UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa's size

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U.N. Endorses Map That Accurately Shows the Size of Africa

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UN vote to adopt new world map wey go show di true size of Africa

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UN approves resolution in support of map that shows Africa's true size

The United States, the only country to vote against the resolution, said it promoted an "ideological agenda" and was a distraction from the "genuine problems of international peace, prosperity ‌or go...

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UN Approves Resolution for World Map That Depicts Africa’s Size More Accurately

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UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

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UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look very different

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

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VN stemt over grote wijziging van de wereldkaart zoals wij ze kennen

Equal Earth is ontworpen om landen in hun werkelijke relatieve grootte weer te geven en is een VN-initiatief onder leiding van Togo met steun van de Afrikaanse Unie bij de VN.

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UN adopts resolution to correct world map representation

UN General Assembly adopts resolution urging accurate world map projections to correct Mercator distortions, better represent Africa and the Global South, and promote equal-area mapping in education a

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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 relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

Greek Reporter

Do Maps Misrepresent the Real Size of Developing Nations?

Maps have often misrepresented the real sizes of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed nations.

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UN votes to adopt new world map that reflects Africa’s true size

The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.