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  1. Offizielle #UN #Weltkarte wird auf Initiative von #Togo geändert – zum Ärger der #USA | STERN.de
    Offizielle Weltkarte wird geändert – zum Ärger der USA | STERN.de share.google/4XOadAiOmzPxu2hJC

  2. Offizielle #UN #Weltkarte wird auf Initiative von #Togo geändert – zum Ärger der #USA | STERN.de
    Offizielle Weltkarte wird geändert – zum Ärger der USA | STERN.de share.google/4XOadAiOmzPxu2hJC

  3. Offizielle #UN #Weltkarte wird auf Initiative von #Togo geändert – zum Ärger der #USA | STERN.de
    Offizielle Weltkarte wird geändert – zum Ärger der USA | STERN.de share.google/4XOadAiOmzPxu2hJC

  4. Offizielle #UN #Weltkarte wird auf Initiative von #Togo geändert – zum Ärger der #USA | STERN.de
    Offizielle Weltkarte wird geändert – zum Ärger der USA | STERN.de share.google/4XOadAiOmzPxu2hJC

  5. Offizielle #UN #Weltkarte wird auf Initiative von #Togo geändert – zum Ärger der #USA | STERN.de
    Offizielle Weltkarte wird geändert – zum Ärger der USA | STERN.de share.google/4XOadAiOmzPxu2hJC

  6. Geography and maps.
    Mapping the spherical earth onto the flat surface of a map, can be done in several ways, called projections. The Mercator projection is well known.

    There is a new projection, proposed by Togo.
    It shows continents at the same scale, i.e. they are represented to their actual geographical sizes, which is more accurate.

    164 members of the UN adopted the new Togo projection. Only the US voted against.
    youtube.com/watch?v=iHkMK4n925c
    -projection

  7. Geography and maps.
    Mapping the spherical earth onto the flat surface of a map, can be done in several ways, called projections. The Mercator projection is well known.

    There is a new projection, proposed by Togo.
    It shows continents at the same scale, i.e. they are represented to their actual geographical sizes, which is more accurate.

    164 members of the UN adopted the new Togo projection. Only the US voted against.
    youtube.com/watch?v=iHkMK4n925c
    #geography #UN #TOGO-projection

  8. Geography and maps.
    Mapping the spherical earth onto the flat surface of a map, can be done in several ways, called projections. The Mercator projection is well known.

    There is a new projection, proposed by Togo.
    It shows continents at the same scale, i.e. they are represented to their actual geographical sizes, which is more accurate.

    164 members of the UN adopted the new Togo projection. Only the US voted against.
    youtube.com/watch?v=iHkMK4n925c
    #geography #UN #TOGO-projection

  9. Geography and maps.
    Mapping the spherical earth onto the flat surface of a map, can be done in several ways, called projections. The Mercator projection is well known.

    There is a new projection, proposed by Togo.
    It shows continents at the same scale, i.e. they are represented to their actual geographical sizes, which is more accurate.

    164 members of the UN adopted the new Togo projection. Only the US voted against.
    youtube.com/watch?v=iHkMK4n925c
    #geography #UN #TOGO-projection

  10. Geography and maps.
    Mapping the spherical earth onto the flat surface of a map, can be done in several ways, called projections. The Mercator projection is well known.

    There is a new projection, proposed by Togo.
    It shows continents at the same scale, i.e. they are represented to their actual geographical sizes, which is more accurate.

    164 members of the UN adopted the new Togo projection. Only the US voted against.
    youtube.com/watch?v=iHkMK4n925c
    #geography #UN #TOGO-projection

  11. @s1m0n4

    I didn't know the difference would be so important 😲
    And we've been using the #Mercator map for 5 centuries??!!

    A big thank to #RobertDussey, Foreign Minister of #Togo, for submitting this resolution.

    Guess which country voted alone against it?

    Trumpisstan, a fifth world dictatorship

  12. @s1m0n4

    I didn't know the difference would be so important 😲
    And we've been using the #Mercator map for 5 centuries??!!

    A big thank to #RobertDussey, Foreign Minister of #Togo, for submitting this resolution.

    Guess which country voted alone against it?

    Trumpisstan, a fifth world dictatorship

  13. europesays.com/afrika/51272/ UN-Entscheidung: Die Afrika-Reform auf der Weltkarte – Was sich jetzt bei der Darstellung des Kontinents ändert #Afrika #Erdvermessung #Geografie(ks) #IPCC(KlimaratDerVereintenNationen)(Geo:I)(ks) #Karten #NewsosImportWelt #Newsteam #texttospeech #Togo

  14. Für Afrika war es ein „historischer Moment“, schreibt der Außenminister von Togo zu der Entscheidung der UN. Auf Weltkarten soll in Zukunft die realistische Größe des Kontinents abgebildet werden. Es gehe um mehr als bloß eine Darstellung.#Geografieks #Erdvermessung #IPCCKlimaratderVereintenNationenGeo:Iks #Newsteam #Karten #newsos-import-welt #Togo #Afrika
    UN-Entscheidung: Die Afrika-Reform auf der Weltkarte – Was sich jetzt bei der Darstellung des Kontinents ändert - WELT
  15. Lees tip -> VN stemt voor wereldkaart die grootte van Afrika toont | De VN adopteert een resolutie om de ware grootte van Afrika op wereldkaarten te tonen. | #resolutie #Togo #wereldkaart #Afrika #VerenigdeNaties |

    hbpmedia.nl/?p=9824

  16. Lees tip -> VN stemt voor wereldkaart die grootte van Afrika toont | De VN adopteert een resolutie om de ware grootte van Afrika op wereldkaarten te tonen. | #resolutie #Togo #wereldkaart #Afrika #VerenigdeNaties |

    hbpmedia.nl/?p=9824

  17. UN votes to adopt new world map that reflects Africa’s true size | Maps News

    The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations. The United Nations has…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Africa #CA #Canada #Europe #France #History #inequality #Maps #Politics #Togo #UnitedNations
    newsbeep.com/719394/

  18. I didn't know the difference would be so important 😲
    And we've been using the #Mercator map for 5 centuries??!!

    A big thank to #RobertDussey, Foreign Minister of #Togo, for submitting this resolution.

    Guess which country voted alone against it?

    france24.com/en/earth/20260904

    #UN #WorldMap

  19. I didn't know the difference would be so important 😲
    And we've been using the #Mercator map for 5 centuries??!!

    A big thank to #RobertDussey, Foreign Minister of #Togo, for submitting this resolution.

    Guess which country voted alone against it?

    france24.com/en/earth/20260904

    #UN #WorldMap

  20. I didn't know the difference would be so important 😲
    And we've been using the #Mercator map for 5 centuries??!!

    A big thank to #RobertDussey, Foreign Minister of #Togo, for submitting this resolution.

    Guess which country voted alone against it?

    france24.com/en/earth/20260904

    #UN #WorldMap

  21. I didn't know the difference would be so important 😲
    And we've been using the #Mercator map for 5 centuries??!!

    A big thank to #RobertDussey, Foreign Minister of #Togo, for submitting this resolution.

    Guess which country voted alone against it?

    france24.com/en/earth/20260904

    #UN #WorldMap

  22. I didn't know the difference would be so important 😲
    And we've been using the #Mercator map for 5 centuries??!!

    A big thank to #RobertDussey, Foreign Minister of #Togo, for submitting this resolution.

    Guess which country voted alone against it?

    france24.com/en/earth/20260904

    #UN #WorldMap

  23. UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
    (Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep <-- shared media article
    --
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Ea <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
    --
    [EXCELLENT!!! The one NO vote ('superfluous'???!!!) was very much noted!; just a polite reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
    “The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
    In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
    At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
    UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
    Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
    Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
    The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap

  24. UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
    (Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep <-- shared media article
    --
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Ea <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
    --
    [EXCELLENT!!! The one NO vote ('superfluous'???!!!) was very much noted!; just a polite reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
    “The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
    In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
    At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
    UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
    Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
    Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
    The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap

  25. UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
    (Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep <-- shared media article
    --
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Ea <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
    --
    [EXCELLENT!!! The one NO vote ('superfluous'???!!!) was very much noted!; just a polite reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
    “The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
    In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
    At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
    UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
    Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
    Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
    The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap

  26. UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
    (Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep <-- shared media article
    --
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Ea <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
    --
    [EXCELLENT!!! The one NO vote ('superfluous'???!!!) was very much noted!; just a polite reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate that the , etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. !)]
    “The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
    In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
    At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
    UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
    Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
    Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
    The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”

  27. UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
    (Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep <-- shared media article
    --
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Ea <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
    --
    [EXCELLENT!!! The one NO vote ('superfluous'???!!!) was very much noted!; just a polite reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
    “The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
    In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
    At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
    UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
    Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
    Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
    The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap