{"id":288,"date":"2026-09-04T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/un-to-vote-on-adopting-new-world-map-that-reflects-africas-true-scale\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T02:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:00:54","slug":"un-to-vote-on-adopting-new-world-map-that-reflects-africas-true-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/un-to-vote-on-adopting-new-world-map-that-reflects-africas-true-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"UN to Vote on Adopting New World Map That Reflects Africa\u2019s True Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations General Assembly is set to vote on Friday regarding a resolution that would formally phase out the traditional Mercator map projection in favor of one that more accurately represents the true size of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Togo has sponsored the resolution, which seeks to replace the long-standing map that depicts the African continent as being roughly similar in size to Greenland. Robert Dussey, Togo\u2019s foreign affairs minister, stated that the initiative is backed by all 54 member states of the African Union, though he did not disclose the total number of supporting countries globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN General Assembly will vote Friday on a resolution to phase out the Mercator projection, which distorts Africa&#8217;s size, in favor of a more accurate depiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227,765,764,763,247,10],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-global-policy","tag-mercator-projection","tag-togo","tag-united-nations","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}