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UN adopts new map to fix world's proportions

For 450 years, the world's most-used map has made Africa look smaller than it really is. The United Nations just voted to change that. Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down and goes back 450 years to show how the map was made — and why it stuck. #news

The World Map You've Known For Years Is Wrong. Here's Why

U.N. Backs Map That Accurately Shows the Size of Africa

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