# UN approves resolution backing map that shows Africa’s true size

https://mins.news/en/item/47817

- CGTN, 2026-09-05 02:52 UTC
- World
- Original: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-09-05/UN-approves-resolution-in-support-of-map-that-shows-Africa-s-true-size-1QbuTU5oHOE/p.html?UTM_Source=cgtn&UTM_Medium=rss&UTM_Campaign=World

> The UN General Assembly approved, by 164 votes to one with six abstentions, a nonbinding resolution encouraging a move away from the size-distorting Mercator projection toward Equal Earth. Led by Togo, the campaign seeks to challenge perceptions of Africa as peripheral. The United States opposed it as an ideological distraction, while Togo plans to update school maps this year.

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