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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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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality was a group of map-makers who favored the adoption of an inverted Peters Projection map as mandatory for all education within the United States. They felt strongly that traditional Mercator maps gave undue focus on the nations and peoples of the Northern Hemisphere.

https://westwing.fandom.com/wiki/Organization_of_Cartographers_for_Social_Equality

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta admit, the old map looked more aesthetic.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Thankfully that isn't the new UN map. This one is.

Equal_Earth_projection