UN votes on historic shift to map reflecting Africa's true scale

The U.N. General Assembly will vote today on an African-led effort to change how the world sees itself on a map. The draft resolution argues that the centuries-old Mercator projection dramatically enlarges landmasses farther from the equator, leaving Africa appearing disproportionately small. Backed by the African Union, the text encourages governments, schools, international organizations and technology companies to use Equal Earth and other equal-area maps where continental size matters. It doesn't ban Mercator, but seeks to establish more proportionally accurate maps as a new global norm. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.

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