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78🚨 BURIED IN THE WESTGEOPOLITICS

UN General Assembly adopts new world map showing Africa's true size; US is sole vote against

Under the radar. This story of US diplomatic isolation on a symbolic post-colonial issue is covered by regional (Africanews, Clarín) and right-leaning Western outlets (Fox News) but is absent from mainstream Western wires and aggregators.

The UN General Assembly voted 164-1 to adopt the Equal Earth map projection, which more accurately represents the relative sizes of continents, as its official world map. The United States was the only nation to vote against the resolution, sponsored by Togo, with the US delegation calling it part of a "radical ideological project."

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