{"id":991,"date":"2026-09-05T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/united-nations-approves-resolution-to-promote-accurate-map-of-africas-size\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:23:58","slug":"united-nations-approves-resolution-to-promote-accurate-map-of-africas-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/united-nations-approves-resolution-to-promote-accurate-map-of-africas-size\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Approves Resolution to Promote Accurate Map of Africa&#8217;s Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations on Friday approved a resolution that encourages a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map toward one that more accurately reflects the true size of countries. The resolution was sponsored by African states and aims to counter the perception that the African continent is smaller than it actually is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN has voted to move away from the Mercator projection in favor of a map that better reflects the true size of countries, particularly Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[227,62,1736,2136,1581,247,10],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-africa","tag-europe","tag-maps","tag-mercator","tag-resolution","tag-united-nations","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}