Thanks to kunulo for drawing my attention to the UN's decision to adopt a new map projection which accurately represents the respective sizes of the continents:
gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-09-05-maps
Short version - Europe small, Africa (for example) really really big, but you wouldn't realise it from the Mercator map projection that everyone knows. A new projection which corrects this misrepresentation has been tried before, but the one I recall made the continents appear to be thin and elongated, almost melting down the globe like a Dali pocket watch.
All maps are political, the new one being no exception. And of course the government that would have us call Lake Ontario by some other name is against it. No surprise there. It will be interesting to see how large Greenland looks on the new map...
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