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UN to vote to adopt new, more accurate world map

The United Nations will vote Friday to adopt a new map of the world meant to make the countries appear more true to size than on the map we use today.

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

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UN adopts new world map showing true scale of continents; only US votes against it

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

“Draft resolution A/80/L.104 is adopted.”

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Africa bigger, US smaller - UN adopts new map

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The World Just Got A New Map: UN Votes To Redraw Continents To Reflect Their True Size

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

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

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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.

UN votes to ‘reduce size of Britain and US’ in new map

The United Nations has voted to replace the traditional map of the world with one that reduces the size of Britain and the US.

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Adding an AI tool to Google Earth shook our trust in maps that has been centuries in the making

People have always put huge trust in the technology used to create maps, from the ancient Greek dioptra to modern satellites.

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.

Time

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical learning, Ptolemy’s book provided a list of over ...