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UN set to vote to scrap century-old world map and 'shrink' Britain to combat 'Western biases'
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UN set to vote to scrap century-old world map and 'shrink' Britain to combat 'Western biases'
The United Nations General Assembly is set to vote today on a landmark resolution calling for the global phase-out of the centuries-old world map.
The Mercator projection is used worldwide and is an international standard for marine navigation because it preserves angles and directions.
However, critics highlight that it projects a spherical Earth onto a flat, rectangular surface, creating massive distortions in th…
4 Sept, 09:19