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UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition

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Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

whoarewethen wrote: post #20

bell-cot wrote: post #9

Noted in the linked UN news source: > Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained. It would have been interesting if NPR had covered the diplomatic and economic considerations behind those countries abstaining, and no other right-wing nationalist regime siding with the US.

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Re: UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition

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Post by someothherguyy » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #17

someothherguyy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map why?

The UN represents the interests of people, not land.

so? people still need to use and visualize a map that isn't some strange abstraction. how useful is a population map when attempting to locate a small country to understand geography?

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