UN to vote on adopting new map that would make our world look very different

The United Nations General Assembly is voting Friday on whether to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true ...

The New World Map the UN Wants You to Use

The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.
Greek Reporter

UN Backs Equal World Map to Show Africa at More Accurate Scale

A claim of a UN world map vote on Africa’s scale lacks a resolution, voting record, year and source needed for verification.
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

U.N. to vote to adopt new, more accurate world map

The United Nations will vote Friday to adopt a new map of the world meant to make the countries appear more true to size than ...
Mental Floss

20 Maps That Changed the World

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...
BGR

Every World Map You've Seen Is Wrong - This Is What Maps Should Look Like

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...