Biggest CHANGE in 50 Years: A New World Map - UN Equal Earth Map #shorts

Episode Title: Biggest CHANGE in 50 Years: A New World Map - UN Equal Earth Map #shorts
Produced by: FactTechz
Description: UN Backs Equal-Area World Maps in 164–1 Vote The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution encouraging wider use of world maps that display continents according to their correct relative area. The “Correct the Map” resolution received 164 votes in favour, one against and six abstentions. The United States cast the only opposing vote. Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine abstained. India supported the resolution while maintaining that its vote did not alter its position on the territorial status of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Introduced by Togo with support from the African Union, the resolution promotes equal-area projections such as Equal Earth. Supporters argue that the commonly used Mercator projection makes Europe, North America and Greenland appear disproportionately large while reducing the visual size of Africa and other equatorial regions. Africa is approximately 14 times larger than Greenland, although many Mercator maps make the two appear broadly comparable. This distortion occurs because Mercator enlarges areas increasingly as they move towards the poles. The projection was developed in 1569 for navigation because it preserves compass directions, not because it accurately compares land areas. Equal Earth, introduced in 2018, preserves the proportional area of countries and continents while presenting the world in a visually familiar curved form. Like every flat representation of a spherical planet, however, it must distort some combination of shape, direction or distance. The United States described the campaign as ideological. Ukraine said its abstention resulted from concerns about how territorial boundaries were represented, rather than opposition to accurately showing Africa’s size. Subscribe to FactTechz


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