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

United Nations

Peacekeeping missions, Security Council votes, sanctions, humanitarian appeals and reform debates centred on the intergovernmental body founded in 1945, from the General Assembly to its specialized agencies. Follows how its 193 member states respond to wars and crises, and where its authority is contested.

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Cartography

The science and art of mapmaking, extended by AI and GIS into automated terrain classification and archaeological feature mapping from remote sensing data.

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