我们只是习惯了被别人定义的世界。 鼓励各国放弃使用了近500年的墨卡托投影世界地图（蓝色部分）， 改用2018年开发的“平等地球”投影法。 The United Nations General Assemblyvoted on Friday to ...

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这是一张我们常见的世界地图，也称墨卡托世界地图。你觉得，北边的格陵兰岛和非洲比，谁的面积大？从这张图上看，两者是几乎平起平坐的巨无霸。可真实数据是：非洲的面积大约是格陵兰的14倍。 [2] 整整14个格陵兰，才顶得上一个非洲。 墨卡托投影 ...

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The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to phase out Mercator projections and adopt Equal Earth projections, a change meant to better represent geographic size on maps. The vote came on Sept. 4, ...

The new map is intended to reduce geographic distortions in educational materials, public communications and data visualizations. The U.N. resolution recommends rather than requires use of the new map ...

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...

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