The United Nations has voted to adopt a new world map that more accurately represents the size of Africa and other equatorial regions.

The U.N. has voted to adopt a new world map as standard. They are dumping the Mercator Projection for an Equal Earth Projection, a map that shows landmasses much closer to their real size. It makes Africa and other equatorial landmasses look larger than previously, and shrinks Europe, North America, Russia, and especially Greenland. The only country to speak and vote against the resolution was the USA. No surprise. The US delegate actually sat there and claimed that the UN was ignoring real problems while working on changing maps for idealogical and political reasons (ignoring the science completely). How she stopped from dissolving in a puddle of irony I'll never know. She also claimed that passing symbolic resolutions like changing maps was why the U.N. is "losing its credibility" – the puddle deepens. Six countries—Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine—abstained from voting. https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168284 #UN #World #Cartography

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size. Only the US voted no. #Native #Indigenous #BIPOC #Africa