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Today, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes (programming.dev)

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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli

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[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

The Equal Earth projection, the one they voted for, kinda sucks IMO. It vertically stretches every country in order to make sure everyone gets equal area, but it's trading horizontal area for vertical area. Robinson is better.