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Today, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes (programming.dev)

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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli

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[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Did the US vote no, because they are smaller on new maps?

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their stated reason boils down to "New map is woke".

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[–] josephmbasile@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Greenland is also much smaller in the new map. So in essence they shrunk his ambition down to the size of his little dingleberry and there was nothing he could do but whine.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Or because China looks bigger?