Japan, India, Ukraine: Why some countries are uneasy about UN’s new world map - India, Japan and Ukraine protest Equal Earth ...
The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.
The world map that generations of schoolchildren have grown up with may be headed for retirement after 500 years. On that ...
Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...
India backed a UN resolution encouraging equal-area world maps but clarified that it does not endorse any specific map, ...
General Assembly has approved a resolution encouraging the world to move away from the centuries-old Mercator map projection.
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