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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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 hours ago

India used to be a long thin Island and then it smashed into the rest of the continent to the North and sort of smushed out on the northern's edge. Eventually it will be completely flattened against the uppercontinent.