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The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection (lemmy.world)
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[–] 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

In other news: Trump doesn't want Greenland anymore...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Actually, 164 to 1 countries voted in favour of the new projection, the one opposing vote was from the USA.

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