The UN General Assembly voted to replace the Mercator projection with the Equal Earth map, which shows countries' true relative sizes, in a "Correct the Map" resolution put forward by African Union states and the Bahamas

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Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted UN Security Council resolution that would have supported Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara and altered the peacekeeping mission

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A rival Russian-drafted resolution to extend the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara failed

The UN General Assembly should debate cartographic representation

The Mercator projection's distortions harm the geopolitical standing of the Global South

Schools should replace the Mercator projection with equal-area maps