# Why Togo wants the world to redraw its maps

https://mins.news/en/video/46353

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-05 05:20 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z0V0Px63do

> Togo has won overwhelming UN support for a resolution encouraging more geographically accurate world maps, challenging the widely used Mercator projection. The projection enlarges areas near the poles and distorts Africa’s relative size. Foreign Minister Robert Dussey says such distortions can pass inaccurate perceptions from one generation to the next.

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