{"id":93787,"date":"2026-09-06T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93787"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:59:09","slug":"un-votes-to-adopt-new-world-map-that-shows-africas-true-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/un-votes-to-adopt-new-world-map-that-shows-africas-true-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa\u2019s true scale"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fe8b5cec3459058fb211228bf452138281e0e36c\/0_0_1112_741\/master\/1112.jpg?width=480&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none\" alt=\"A comparison of the Mercator and the Eckert IV maps\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/unitednations\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">United Nations<\/a> 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\u2019s size. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/04\/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa\">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>The\u00a0United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe&#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":["post-93787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/93787","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=93787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93788,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93787\/revisions\/93788"}],"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=93787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}