{"id":78730,"date":"2025-08-25T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78730"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:50:25","slug":"africas-plan-to-redraw-skewed-world-map-55-nation-union-calls-for-equal-earth-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/africas-plan-to-redraw-skewed-world-map-55-nation-union-calls-for-equal-earth-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s plan to redraw &#8216;skewed&#8217; world map: 55-nation Union calls for &#8216;Equal Earth&#8217; map"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h1 class=\"viewsHeaderText\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1KPVmL.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The Mercator map, created in 1569, is still largely used today but land masses closer to the Equator are shown as being smaller than they are in reality\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>African nations are demanding that the &#8216;distorted&#8217; world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/africa-s-plan-to-redraw-skewed-world-map-55-nation-union-calls-for-equal-earth-map\/ar-AA1LaqDX?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68ac7318f9fb4a318659090c8aa171c3&amp;ei=20\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>African nations are demanding that the &#8216;distorted&#8217; world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Africa.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78731,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78730\/revisions\/78731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}