UN Backs New World Map That Makes Africa Look Bigger; US Votes Against

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution supporting the Equal Earth projection, with 164 countries voting in favour, the United States opposing it and six countries abstaining. The United Nations General Assembly has backed a new approach to displaying the world map that gives a more accurate visual representation of the relative sizes of continents. [...] The post UN Backs New World Map That Makes Africa Look Bigger; US Votes Against first appeared on informalnewz .