Overview
- The General Assembly approved the 'Correct the Map' resolution on Friday by 164 votes to 1 with six abstentions, with the United States casting the only no vote.
- The resolution recommends using area‑equivalent projections such as Equal Earth for general informational and educational maps to show continents in true relative size.
- Equal Earth, created in 2018 by Bojan Šavrič, Tom Patterson and Bernhard Jenny, preserves surface area so that Africa appears about 14 times larger than Greenland as it is in reality.
- The measure is advisory not binding, and early follow‑through includes France’s pledge to adopt the projection for official maps and Togo’s plan to update schoolbooks and consult technology and mapping firms.
- Practical change will be gradual because schools, atlases and digital platforms must revise materials and map defaults, requiring coordination with publishers and major tech companies such as Google and Apple.