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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents ...

The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with ...

Explaining India's stand, First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, Raghoo Puri, highlighted that Equal Area projections preserve the relative sizes or areas of continental and ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

A NEW world map has officially been adopted after a UN vote – with the fresh model reducing the size of Britain and the US while making Africa bigger. The landmark resolution means the traditional ...

France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of a map that better reflects actual continental sizes, especially Africa. A ...

Aimed at “a more accurate representation” of continental landmasses, the resolution was supported by 164 countries, while the US voted against it and six other states abstained. The new map – known as ...

The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps. The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a ...

The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents such as Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the ...

The international body approved the move on Friday, September 4, saying the new map more accurately reflects the size of Africa. France and the UK were among 164 nations who voted in favour of Togo’s ...