The resolution, led by Togo and supported by the African Union, was passed by a huge majority of 164 votes to one, with six countries abstaining. The United States was the only country to vote against it.

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.

India voted in favour of a UN resolution to adopt a new world map correcting Africa’s size distortion, supporting equitable cartographic standards.

While the US was the only country that opposed the resolution, Ukraine, Serbia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia & Moldova abstained from the vote. India stresses on choice of projection.

The French foreign ministry on Friday said it plans to abandon using maps with the traditional Mercator projection of the world, backing a push by Africa to give the continent a more realistic geographical representation.

UN General Assembly endorses a resolution urging a shift from the Mercator projection, highlighting Africa's cartographic concerns, with only the US dissenting.

How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking demonstration of “the distortion and exaggeration inherent in various ...

Member states of the United Nations on September 4 endorsed a resolution promoting map projections that more accurately reflect the true size of continents, a s

UN's non-binding resolution asks schools, publishers and tech firms to switch to equal-area projections. India voted yes, with a caveat.