Comment on UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows true size of all countriesparentComments−VertanaNinjai7dPolitical mathematics like the Mercator projection which shrunk Africa to an unrealistic degree?−final_aeon7dIs that why we adopted the Mercator projection? No, it's not−VertanaNinjai6dI don’t know who “we” is, but seeing as this map was made in the 1500s by a European there is certainly an argument to be made that it is rooted in a Euro-centric view of the world.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-...
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Political mathematics like the Mercator projection which shrunk Africa to an unrealistic degree?
Is that why we adopted the Mercator projection? No, it's not
I don’t know who “we” is, but seeing as this map was made in the 1500s by a European there is certainly an argument to be made that it is rooted in a Euro-centric view of the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-...