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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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[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Did the US vote no, because they are smaller on new maps?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 51 minutes ago

Or because China looks bigger?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 27 minutes ago

As I heard it, Africa is smaller on map than it should be. "It would be woke to fix that"