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Why India backed the UN bid to ‘correct’ the world map: The UN resolution passed on September 4 represents a crucial step towards dismantling structural ...
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Africa: UN Backs Effort to Drop Mercator Map and Show Size of Africa More Accurately
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UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look very different: The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects ...
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How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map: The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional ...
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Africa bigger, US smaller: UN adopts new map: The new map, known as the Equal Earth cartographic projection, improves "the accuracy of the cartographic ...
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'Correct the Map': UN backs new world map: UN General Assembly adopts resolution to encourage accurate world maps, backed by Togo and African countries.
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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows true size of Africa: The resolution is part of the #CorrectTheMap campaign led by Togo and backed by all 55 African ...
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UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale: Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as ...
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World as we know it is about to change after UN vote on map of Africa’s true size
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Africa bigger, US smaller: UN adopts new map to accurately portray size of continents
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UN General Assembly adopts new world map that shows Africa's true size | Africanews
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UN moves away from map that makes Africa look small: The United Nations on Friday voted for a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map toward one ...
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Correction demanded: Why Togo wants to change the world map: Looking at a standard world map, one gets the impression that Greenland and Africa are roughly the ...
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