Just in case you missed it, there has been a lot of discussion lately about maps. No, it is not the name of a gulf and one of the great lakes. First, there was the question of how big Greenland really is. Second, on September 4, 2026, the United Nations voted to update their maps from the older Mercator projection to the newer 2018 Equal Earth projection, which more correctly shows the areas of various countries.
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For more about these two stories and maps in general, see Mapping the World.
- Amarachi Orie. “UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look very different.” CNN. September 4, 2026.
- Eromo Egbejule. “UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale.” The Guardian. September 4, 2026.
- Bojan Šavrič, Tom Patterson, and Bernhard Jenny. “Equal Earth Projection.”
Shaded Relief. Updated: January 24, 2019. - “Introducing the Equal Earth Projection.” NACIS/YouTube. December 8, 2018. (19:07)
- “Mapping the World. FAS Astronomers Blog. March 2021. Updated September 2026.
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