{"id":129841,"date":"2026-09-05T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=129841"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:40:23","slug":"radical-u-s-rejects-u-n-adopted-world-map-adjusting-africas-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=129841","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Radical\u2019: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa\u2019s size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Nations has adopted a West African country\u2019s proposal for a new world map to replace one created in the 16th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote on Friday was almost unanimous. Only one country \u2014 the United States \u2014 voted against the proposed map, which more accurately reflects the size of Africa and other regions, calling it \u201cradical.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resolution, titled \u201cCorrect the Map,\u201d <strong><\/strong>officially phases out the standard Mercator map, which cartographers say distorts the actual size of landmasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat was extremely useful during the age of exploration and European colonialism,\u201d Patterson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/21\/nx-s1-5508358\/mercator-map-africa\">told NPR<\/a> in an interview last year. \u201cIf you\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greenland, for example, appears equal in size to the entire continent of Africa when, in reality, the autonomous Danish territory is 14 times smaller.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote was 164 to one, with six other countries \u2014 Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine \u2014 abstaining. All other member nations supported the proposal, led by Togo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen 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,\u201d Yaryna Ferencevych, a U.S. representative to the United Nations, said in a statement explaining the U.S. dissent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile 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,\u201d Ferencevych added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine said it disagreed with the new map\u2019s reflection of Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/united-nations-africa-u-s-new-map\">\u2018Radical\u2019: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa\u2019s size<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\">MS NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has adopted a West African country\u2019s proposal for a new world map&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":129800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ms-now","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Radical\u2019: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa\u2019s size - Marin &amp; 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