Robert Dussey, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Togo, briefs reporters at the United Nations on the day of the vote. “A fair map does not change the geography of the world, it changes how we see the world,” he said.
Other lies of Esau(Whiteman)
1.Calling pink and Pale people whites
2.Calling Jesus a Whiteman(KJV, Revelation 1:15-15)
3.Deleting blackness out of the bible(see, KJV, Job 30:30; Jeremiah 14:2)
4.Creating a fake Israel(Zionist state)
5.Lying that that children of Israel are white
UN tells the world: Stop making Africa look small
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168284
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is.
By 164 votes to one, Member States on Friday endorsed a resolution promoting map projections that more accurately reflect the true size of continents – the culmination of an African-led campaign against the 16th-century Mercator projection, still the most widely used map in the world.
The United States cast the sole vote against, dismissing the initiative as part of a “radical ideological project.”
Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained.
The resolution does not ban the Mercator projection or impose a replacement. Instead, it encourages governments, schools, international organizations and technology companies to use the Equal Earth projection and other so-called equal-area maps when relative size matters, and to teach the limitations of any flat map in representing a spherical planet.
Behind that seemingly technical debate lies a larger argument about history and power: whether a map designed for European sailors in the 16th century has, over generations, distorted not only geography but perceptions of a whole, vast and complex continent.
“Maps shape our understanding of the world,” Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign minister, said before the vote. “They guide education, nourish the imagination, and influence collective perceptions.”
Made small
Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer, devised his projection in 1569 to solve a practical problem of maritime navigation. Because straight lines on his map correspond to constant compass directions, sailors could use it to plot their courses.
But preserving direction came at the expense of area. Landmasses appear increasingly enlarged the farther they are from the Equator.
Greenland for instance can look roughly comparable in size to Africa, even though Africa is about 14 times larger. Northern Europe and North America are similarly magnified, relative to equatorial regions.
Despite its original navigational purpose, Mercator remains common in educational, media, digital and official materials. The resolution says those distortions have contributed to the “symbolic minimization” of Africa and perpetuated an unbalanced view of the world.
‘A fair map’
Togo led negotiations on behalf of the African group, building on a campaign backed by the African Union.
The resolution describes correcting such distortions as an act of “cognitive justice and memorial reparation” and points to Equal Earth, developed in 2018, as a projection that more accurately represents relative size.
Mr. Dussey emphasized that the effort was not meant to condemn Mercator, whose usefulness for navigation he acknowledged, or to impose a single projection.
“A fair map does not change the geography of the world, it changes how we see the world,” he said.
Washington objects
The United States saw something far more political in the effort.
“This resolution mocks the work and purpose of this institution,” the American representative said, arguing that what was presented as an innocuous attempt to update cartographic proportions was part of “the much larger and more radical ideological project it belongs to.”
The representative singled out the resolution’s references to reparations and “cognitive justice,” calling initiatives like it “barnacles on our work here and the reason this institution is losing its credibility.”
France moved in the opposite direction. Hours before the vote, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced Paris was planning to abandon Mercator for its maps of the world, aligning his Government with the broader effort championed by the African Union.
The shift means France itself, like the United States and Russia, will appear smaller relative to equatorial countries.
It illustrates the unusual dynamics of this decades-long debate. Equal-area maps do not make Africa larger; they remove the exaggeration Mercator gives landmasses closer to the poles.
Borderline revolt
Ukraine said it supported efforts to correct historical distortions affecting Africa and other parts of the Global South but objected to the way some maps using Equal Earth depict Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia.
Its representative warned that endorsing the projection without adequate safeguards could open a “Pandora’s box,” allowing maps to create ambiguity over disputed territories.
The European Union supported the resolution but addressed the same concern.
Speaking on behalf of the bloc, Ireland stressed that the measure applied only to the relative size of landmasses and had no bearing on sovereignty, territorial status or internationally recognized borders.
The bloc also said its support did not constitute an endorsement of the maps displayed on the Equal Earth website.
Imperfect view
The resolution itself acknowledges a fundamental problem that no vote can solve. No projection can perfectly reproduce the curved surface of the Earth on a plane. Each sacrifice something – area, shape, distance or direction – and each is suited to different purposes.
The measure is nonbinding, and Mercator is not disappearing into the library vaults, never to be seen again.
But Friday’s vote gave near unanimous international backing to an argument which many African governments have increasingly pressed: that the choices we make over maps can shape how generations understand the world.
‘Radical’: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa’s size
https://www.ms.now/news/united-nations-africa-u-s-new-map
The U.S. was the only nation to oppose a new world map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions.
The United Nations has adopted a West African country’s proposal for a new world map to replace one created in the 16th century.
The vote on Friday was almost unanimous. Only one country — the United States — voted against the proposed map, which more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions, calling it “radical.”
The resolution, titled “Correct the Map,” officially phases out the standard Mercator map, which cartographers say distorts the actual size of landmasses.
Tom Patterson, a retired cartographer for the U.S. National Park Service, is a co-creator of the Equal Earth map and says it provides a much-needed update.
“That was extremely useful during the age of exploration and European colonialism,” Patterson told NPR in an interview last year. “If you’re using the Mercator map as a world map, say, in the classroom, students would just have a completely warped view of the size of countries in the world.”
Greenland, for example, appears equal in size to the entire continent of Africa when, in reality, the autonomous Danish territory is 14 times smaller.
The vote was 164 to one, with six other countries — Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine — abstaining. All other member nations supported the proposal, led by Togo.
“When the United Nations questions why it is losing legitimacy in the world and is not taken seriously time and again, we point to resolutions such as this,” Yaryna Ferencevych, a U.S. representative to the United Nations, said in a statement explaining the U.S. dissent.
“While this initiative is presented as an anodyne effort to update cartographic proportions, the United States clearly sees it cannot be separated from the much larger and more radical ideological project it belongs to,” Ferencevych added.
Ukraine said it disagreed with the new map’s reflection of Russian territory
