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The United Nations votes to adopt a new map that shows Africa's true scale | DW News
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September 5, 2026
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The UN has adopted a resolution to adopt a new version of the world map that better represents the scale of the globe's continents. The old map was based on the so-called Mercator projection from 1569, which distorted the size of countries around the equator and in the polar regi
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