'Africa' Revolution on Maps: UN General Assembly Agrees, Africa Will Be Reflected in Its True Dimensions

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For 450 years the world learns geography with an error on the world map that does not honor Africa. That error has a name: Mercator projection. That error has just lost its throne at the UN. On Friday, September 4, 2026 the United Nations General Assembly passed a historic resolution. Its This article belongs to High Density! The original article can be found here: Africa recovers 14 times the size that the world map of its entire life stole fro…

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Startupi The new world map and what it reveals about the house we inhabit UN approves the Equal Earth projection, which corrects secular and broad distortions Africa and South America despite the US voting against. What is at stake is not only cartography, it is also the way we see the world and the place we occupy in it. The post The new world map and what it reveals about the house we inhabit first appears in Startupi and was written by Ricard…

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A world like you've never seen before: UN adopts new world map, only America complains

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The General Assembly of the United Nations has decided that the African continent should be reflected in its real dimensions on the official world map. The “Correct the Map” bill was adopted by 164 countries in favor. Although the African continent is about 14 times larger than Greenland, it is reflected in almost the same size on classical maps.

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The UN General Assembly voted by a large majority for a new world map projection to better reflect the real size of the continents and to make Africa more realistic.

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The UN questions Gerhard Mercator's projected world map from Duisburg. The reason for this is the unjust size of the continents.