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

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by Orwi@programming.dev to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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

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[–] logi@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

But you completely discard the very concept of direction. And look at poor New Zealand.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think so, I think it accurately portrays what North is on our globe. Magnetic North is in the Arctic. By displaying the Earth this way, we're seeing a map that's oriented to the North.

The issue with New Zealand goes away with tessellation. This is from Wikipedia, I think that we should be tessellating around the the first part of the map instead but it gets the point across

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

What a trippy representation of the world! I love it!