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UN approves new world map reflecting Africa’s true size — US is only country to object
Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world.
UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...
Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland ...
UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows true size of all countries - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools ...
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger ...
The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, ...
Nigeria and 163 countries support a UN resolution promoting fairer maps that accurately represent Africa’s geographical size ...
The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions ...
The US was the only country to vote against the move to limit use of the famous 16th-century Mercator map for the Equal Earth ...
India backs the UN resolution supporting the Equal Earth map but clarifies that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh must be shown ...
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