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UN General Assembly Approves Resolution for More Accurate World Maps; US Sole Vote Against

UN General Assembly adopts resolution for more accurate world maps; US sole vote against.

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The UN General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map reflecting the real relative size of countries after African nations urged the organization to correct what they consider a century-old injustice. [1][2][3][6][7][8][9][10] The UN General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a resolution urging international organizations and states to use 'Equal Earth' maps for cartographic representations. [4] The resolution, called 'Correct the map', was presented by members of the African Union as well as by the Bahamas and was approved with strong support: 164 member states voted in favor, six abstained, and only the United States voted against. [5] The UN resolution aims to limit the use of 16th-century Mercator maps, which distort continent sizes; for instance, Greenland appears nearly equal to Africa although Africa is 14 times larger. [11] Togo's Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said Togo will be the first country to change its geography books and will push other governments, schools, international organizations, and technology companies to promote the changes. [12]
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  1. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday to promote more accurate cartographic depictions of the world's continents, as requested by Togo and many African countries. · ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ - Τα λέει όλα
  2. The UN General Assembly adopted on 2026-09-04 a resolution presented by Togo and supported by the African Union to abandon the use of the Mercator map projection in favor of a more accurate representation of continent sizes. · La Tercera
  3. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday to promote map projections that more accurately reflect the true sizes of continents. · El Universo
  4. The UN General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a resolution urging international organizations and states to use 'Equal Earth' maps for cartographic representations. · DER STANDARD
  5. The resolution, called 'Correct the map', was presented by members of the African Union as well as by the Bahamas and was approved with strong support: 164 member states voted in favor, six abstained, and only the United States voted against. · El Imparcial
  6. The UN General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map reflecting the real relative size of countries after African nations urged the organization to correct what they consider a century-old injustice. · El Imparcial
  7. The United Nations General Assembly voted on a Friday to approve a resolution replacing the traditional world map with one that accurately reflects the size of the African continent. · BBC News Mundo
  8. The UN General Assembly will vote on Friday on a resolution to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa's size. · The Guardian
  9. The UN General Assembly is scheduled to vote on a resolution initiated by Togo that requests the abandonment of the traditional Mercator map projection in favor of one that accurately reflects the size of countries. · Jurnalul
  10. The United Nations General Assembly voted on September 4 to replace the Mercator map projection with the Equal Earth model to accurately reflect the true size of continents. · RPP
  11. The UN resolution aims to limit the use of 16th-century Mercator maps, which distort continent sizes; for instance, Greenland appears nearly equal to Africa although Africa is 14 times larger. · ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ - Τα λέει όλα
  12. Togo's Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said Togo will be the first country to change its geography books and will push other governments, schools, international organizations, and technology companies to promote the changes. · ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ - Τα λέει όλα
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