WorldJapan, India and Ukraine uneasy over new UN map

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly backed encouraging countries to use the Equal Earth projection, which represents continents more accurately than the widely used Mercator map. India, Ukraine and Japan are not rejecting the projection itself, but object to how disputed territories may be shown, with Ukraine criticizing Crimea’s shading as closer to Russia’s.

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