{"id":105694,"date":"2026-09-04T17:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=105694"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:01:38","slug":"un-approves-resolution-in-support-of-map-that-shows-africas-true-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=105694","title":{"rendered":"UN approves resolution in support of map\u00a0that shows Africa&#8217;s true size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Sept 4 &#8211; The United Nations\u00a0on Friday voted for a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map towards one more accurately reflecting countries&#8217; true size, a resolution sponsored by African states to counter perceptions that the continent is peripheral.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/europe\/un-approves-resolution-in-support-of-map-that-shows-africas-true-size\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Sept 4 &#8211; The United Nations\u00a0on Friday voted for a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map towards one more accurately reflecting countries&#8217; true size, a resolution sponsored by African states to counter perceptions that the continent is peripheral. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-105694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldnews","tag-yahoonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}